Tuesday, April 17, 2007

NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO was an organization that involved countries in Europe and North America. It was an agreement where they would help each other if they need money or help fighting other countries which is the main reason of forming this organization. NATO transformed itself from being a military force to a political force from the downfall of communism and eliminated military alliances.The Warsaw Pact was formed 6 years after NATO's formation by Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin. It involved mostly the Soviet Union and it's satellite countries. It was first made to be another mutual defense alliance like NATO but it formed a communist military alliances to keep power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union took control over it's allies attacking Czechoslovakia and Hungary. This pact renewed for another 20 years. Slowly the Warsaw Pact was beginning to separate. East Germany decided to withdrew from the pact and join West Germany to reunify Germany again and then the leaders of the remaining 6 countries in the pact decided to dissolve this.

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