NATO Warsaw Pact

• NATO


  North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• Warsaw Pact


  Alliance of countries that supported the USSR
• NATO and the Warsaw Pact are two alliances that supported the USA and the USSR
• NATO


  • Alliance of countries that supported the USA
• If one country in NATO was attacked


  All the other countries in NATO would help them
• The Cold War had spread, it was no longer just between the USA and the USSR, now half the world was involved
• NATO was formed


  1949
• NATO was formed


  In response to the Berlin Blockade
• Countries like France and the UK wanted to join NATO
• The Warsaw Pact was formed


  1955
• The Warsaw Pact was formed

  After West Germany was allowed to join NATO
• The Warsaw Pact was called the Warsaw Pact because the treaty was signed in the Polish city of Warsaw
• Reasons why the Warsaw Pact was created

  • Concern about the USA
  • Concern about West Germany
  • To keep up with the West
  • To control the countries in Eastern Europe further