Acronym Soup

The Cold War was a state of political between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers characterized by threats propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare. The cold war happened between 1945 to 1990.

In 1949 the US formed a mutual defense alliance with Western Europe called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Truman had a hard time convincing Congress that this organization was necessary on account of American sentiment previously being avoidant of entangling alliances. The NATO charter pledged that an attack on one of the member nations constituted an attack on all of the members. Stalin’s aggressive actions at Berlin accelerated the American effort to use military means to contain communism. So the implementation of this alliance represented Truman’s willingness to disregard the tradition of neutrality. The Soviets also create an alliance called the Warsaw Pact countries that had the equivalent ambitions as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

European nations signed secret treaties that created a system of alliance and the leadership was

The NSA, National Security Agency, is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The headquarters are in Maryland. The founder is Harry S. Truman. It was founded on November 4th, 1952. Their motto is "Defending Our Nation. Securing The Future." They have an annual budget of Classified (estimated $10.8 billion, 2013). The agency that overlooks them is the United States Department of Defense. The NSA is under the authority of Director of National Intelligence. The Nsa is responsible for a lot of things; global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in

the North Atlantic Treaty providing for mutual support in the event of a military attack on any

The FRG saw the GDR as a soviet puppet state. A puppet state is defined as: a state that is allegedly independent but is in fact dependant on an outside power.(The Free Dictionary) Therefore, to the FRG, the DGR was illegitimate, and the FRG did not concern themselves with the GDR. In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was speaking in West Germany and in his speech he said “Let them come to Berlin”. Insisting on people coming to the democratic city of berlin in the FRG.(“Modern germany”)

U.S. intelligence agency within the Department of Defense that is responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security. Its headquarters are in Fort Meade, Maryland. The NSA grew out of the communications intelligence activities of U.S. military units during World War II. It was established in 1952 by a presidential directive from Harry S. Truman in which he specified its mission as to provide an effective, unified organization and control of the communications intelligence activities of the United States conducted against foreign governments, to provide for integrated operational policies and procedures pertaining thereto.

Of all the governmantal protective services there are two that stand out among others. They are filled with secrets and mystery. Many do not even know the differences of the two. However when it comes to the country's security, there are none better. Though they may seem alike, the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) are very different.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has been a United States discernment org since 1952 when President Truman formally named it; in spite of the fact that the office has been around since World War I translating code correspondences. It is presently one of the biggest United States brainpower associations on the planet. It works under the sway of the Department of Defense. The NSA's primary objectives are screening , gathering, deciphering, translating and examining data and information of outside intelligences around the globe. This incorporates the associated people with terrorism in the United States.

At this point, more important than weapons became a coalition of countries that agree to protect each other or to attack some enemy. Both major powers realized that the possession of nuclear weapons endowed them with alliance building capabilities. The major nuclear powers could offer protection. No nuclear states would fit under one or the other’s “nuclear umbrella.” The Soviet Union organized its East European satellites into Warsaw Pact in 1955. In addition to NATO, USA established security treaties with Japan in 1951,Australiacc, and New Zealand (ANZUS) in 1951, and with Southeast Asian states (SEATO) in 1954. Both superpowers extended their deterrence and

NATO had had a huge effect on the European security, but after the Cold War they were not sure how to continue. People around the world were sure that NATO had come to its end as the Soviet Union didn’t excist anymore and Germany had reunited as one (McCalla). Big changes were to be made and NATO decided to expand their territory to Central and Eastern Europe. The main goal of this was to bring United States and Russia closer, as well as to make Europe stable again after a tough period. As the biggest threat of the century was gone, NATO was able to renew their military by reducing weapons programs, readiness, and expensive annual military exercises. They also started cooperating with several other international organizations to make maintaining peace in Europe more efficient

In the last fifty years the German Democratic Republic has been a nonstop changing country. In Germany, the terms "East" and "West" do not just represent geographically regions. It runs much deeper than that, and there is still a large gap in the way

The second super power known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO camps), this military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty also called as Washington Treaty in April 4, 1949 which sought to create counterweight to soviet armies that station in center and eastern Europe after World War ll. NATO camps consists from the countries of Belgium, Denmark, Canada, Iceland, Italy, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Norway, United States and United Kingdom that original membership during cold wars. Besides that, NATO camps also include with the original signatories that joining by Greece and Turkey in 1952, West Germany in 1955 and Spain in 1982. The primary NATO purpose during cold war was to unify and strengthen the western

The Warsaw pact was the result of a treaty which the USSR and seven of its surrounding countries signed. The treaty was signed by the USSR, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria, in Warsaw, Poland in 1955. This was created 6 years after the Western nations created NATO in 1949. This treaty was a “treaty of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance” ("APPENDIX C: THE WARSAW PACT -- Soviet Union"). The USSR stated that the reason for the creation of this alliance was the addition of Western Germany to the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization). They weren’t very fond of this because they felt threatened. The Russians created this pact for one main reason; to keep its East European allies under its political and military control ("APPENDIX C: THE WARSAW PACT -- Soviet Union”). They didn’t want the rest of the surrounding satellite countries to end up joining NATO like Western Germany did, because that would put them in a very dangerous situation. Many people say that “Khrushchev’s ambition towards the power of the Communist party may explain the formation of the Warsaw pact – he wanted global domination for Communism.” ("The Cold War Museum"). The Warsaw Pact was a very big part of the cold war because it finally gave a depth to the “Cold War”. It seemed very one sided. This creation of another side was good for the “communist” states.

The one most important success that could be accredited to the treaty and the actions of the alliance is ending the cold war. With all the power that the NATO forces had along with the power that the soviets possessed, war seemed inevitable. “The much-vaunted nuclear capability of NATO turns out, as a practical matter, to have been far less important to the eventual outcome than its conventional forces. But above all, it was NATO’s soft power that bested its adversary”(Mastny 1). This ‘soft power’ is what surprised the Soviet Union and the other eastern countries. NATO’s success at helping to bring the cold war to an end gave it more power as more and more countries in Europe, especially Eastern Europe, looked to be under the blanket of protection that the alliance could provide. As the Soviet Union was breaking up along with the unification of Germany, NATO was counted on to do more than