NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO stood for the North Atlantic Tredy Organization. this was formed by tyhe eurpoean nations and the united states. since they all had a democratic system of goverment. the major reason for NATO was that the countries involved wanted a defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked NATO would come to help them.
Also, since the western European nations were unstable econiomicly at the end of world war 2, the agreement of the nation included the Marshall Plan. this was when the east, (the united states) would send economic aid to the euopean countries who needed it.
Up until 1950, NATO dident have a military structure so at the beginning of the korean war, they made one and NATO expanded.


The Warsaw Act was the exact opposite of NATO. This pact was made up mostly by the Soviet Union and other little countries. It was supposed to be in response to NATO. The Soviet Union kept military personnel in the other countries of the alliance and kept them running socialist governments. This was undertaken by Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin after they gained power in 1955.