Taking a Look at the Warsaw Pact

The USSR thought that the United States as buying the loyalty of other nations. (Doc. 2) The United States and 11 other countries formed NATO, and alliance which secured the protection of all its members. This alliance was meant to discourage a military attack by the Soviet Union, but in response to the formation of NATO the USSR created the Warsaw Pact. “While NATO functioned as an alliance, the USSR used the Warsaw Pact to control their satellite states.

Warsaw Pact: was a military alliance that signed by eight eastern European countries gathered in the Warsaw. There was a serious East-West confrontation after the Second World War. Warsaw Pact came out to fight against the rearmament of West Germany and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (876, 911)

The North Atlantic Treaty was written to form an alliance between the anticommunist Western European and North American nations. When it was written, in 1949, the twelve nations that would initially make up the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, all came to the agreement that if any one of the member countries were attacked, such attack would be taken as an offense to all of the member countries, and a counter assault would certainly take place (North Atlantic Treaty). Because NATO was a defense organization, being prepared to fight back in the event of an attack from the Soviet Union embodied one of its most important requirements. Therefore, much consideration and money went into assembling an array of potent nuclear weapons that could overwhelm the Soviets and inhibit them from triggering a nuclear war (North Atlantic Treaty Organization 4). The main purpose of this protective alliance was to contain communism and thus to prevent it from spreading around

In 1949, the United States signed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and other capitalist states . Through this treaty, the countries agreed to defend each

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.

The NATO, also known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was a military alliance that was created as a response to the Soviet Union becoming a threat to the United States. They believed that this alliance would provide them with support and stability and protect them from any threats that they get from the Soviet Union. Document 4 states, "The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in

1). On the other side was the United States who lived through Capitalism and believed in democracy in which everyone has a say in government. The United States gave everyone power and they were scared of the whole world turning to Communism. The Soviet Union and United States were two very strong countries that would start a huge nuclear war if they fought directly against each other. They used Proxy Wars to keep a nuclear war from happening. The United States was involved in NATO. “The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or in North America shall be considered as an attack against them all” (Doc. 4). NATO was a way to have the backs of the North Atlantic area. If one place was attacked they would consider it as an attack on all of them and than they would all do whatever was

This legislation called for massive economic aid to Europe and believed that the benefits outweigh the costs. The theory was that by stabilizing Western Europe, the United States would reap the benefits of economic prosperity and increased American influence overseas. Similarly, President Truman also established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in 1949 to further the union of Western countries. This legislature was not only important because it bound twelve nations under an alliance, but it was also the first time the United States pledged to go to war if another country was attacked. The idea in establishing this was that by creating a unified front, it would dishearten the Soviets from continuing their expansion.

In an article by George Kennan, he stated that we “must continue to regard the Soviet Union as a rival, not a partner in the political arena” (Doc 2). He continued, implying the impossibility of peaceful coexistence with the USSR (Doc 2). This impossibility of peaceful coexistence hinted at the eventual conflict that would come in the future. The United States wanted to charter against the Soviets. In the creation of NATO, they drew up a treaty stating, “The parties to this Treaty...are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of their people, founded on the principle of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law” (Doc 3). The Allied countries had used ideas from their faults of World War II with Germany. They learned to never appease an aggressive country, as it would lead to further aggressiveness. In response to NATO, the Soviet Union drew up The Warsaw Pact, and forced it upon the Allies. This showed the taking of sides, but if either side would make a move, war will break out (Doc 4). In relation to future events, this formation of the pact instigated further tension as both countries felt the need to assert their

allied with the western powers, also through NATO, and geopolitically aligned against the Warsaw Pact.

In 1945, one major war ended and another began. After World War II, the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union were involved in what became known as the Cold War, which was a period of mutual fear and distrust. The war was given the name "cold" because the two sides never actually came into direct armed conflict; it was a war of words and ideologies rather than a shooting war (Crawford, 2009, p. 6). The Soviet Union and the United States came out from World War II as the new world superpowers, and despite their common victory with the defeat of their enemies, their primary bond was broken. There were deep-rooted ideological, economic, and political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union prior to the Second World War. Their differences, most notably their political systems and their visions of a postwar Europe, were intensified as a result of their mutual suspicions and during and after the Second World War drove the allied nations into an ideological conflict that lasted for 45 years.

However, the tension kept building between the United States and Soviet Union. Soon after the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan was created to aid England in rebuilding their war damages. In addition to this, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, was conceived. This organization consisted of twelve countries that allied together to vow that an attack on one of them would be an attack on all of them. In response to this, Russia developed their own organization under the Warsaw Pact. In 1949, the Cold War was in full swing when Russia exploded their own atomic bomb, no longer giving the US the upper

Near the end of WWII soviet Russia and America began installing governments elsewhere in the world, with this and the ultimate untrust between the two powers, the conflict began. Near that time, the Soviet Union violated agreements made at yalta and potsdam, they invaded Germany and started to set up small communist states. The US thought of this as another act of war. On April 4, 1949 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO was established by the US. The purpose of this was to counter Soviet armies in central Europe after World War Two. NATO sought to strengthen the Western Allies’ military response to a possible invasion of Europe by the Soviet Union. Ultimately in July 1989, Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader in Soviet Russia, announced that Moscow will no longer be setting up communist governments in central and eastern Europe. After this event, NATO transformed into a political alliance, made to maintain international stability and safety in

relations with the West in the form of the Marshall plan nor the lack of

The Cold War In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. Within a few years, yet, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle—military, political, economic, ideological—to prevail in a new "Cold War. Was it the Soviets, who reneged on their agreements to allow the people of Eastern Europe to determine their own fates by imposing totalitarian rule on territories unlucky enough to fall behind the "Iron Curtain?" Or was it the Americans, who ignored the Soviets' legitimate security concerns, sought to intimidate the world with the atomic bomb, and pushed to expand their own international influence and market dominance? The tensions that would later grow into Cold War became evident as early as 1943, when the "Big Three" allied leaders—American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin—met in Tehran to coordinate strategy. Poland, which sits in an unfortunate position on the map, squeezed between frequent enemies Russia and Germany, became a topic for heated debate. The Poles, then under German occupation, had not one but two governments-in-exile—one Communist, one anticommunist—hoping to take over the country upon its liberation from the Nazis. The Big Three disagreed over which Polish faction should b allowed to take control after the war, with