NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO means the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was formed between 12 countries from North America to Europe. Well the countries which were involved in the NATO wanted a mutual defense alliance because they knew that if one country is going to be involved in a war, and then other countries in NATO could back up and help them, so in this case they can form a stronger defensive group. After World War II many countries in Western Europe were in a great chaos and most of them became weak politically and militarily because they lost hundreds of soldiers and weren’t able to go on war with other countries that quickly. So the NATO decided to help these countries who had suffered a lot after World War II to form a strong defensive group against the spread of communist which is also known as the "iron curtain" which was establish between the Soviet Union and the Western Europe from 1945-1990. Well soon the relationship between the Soviet Union and the western had worsened and the NATO importance began to grow. By the year 1979 the NATO wanted to build up a defense by stopping the Soviet Union from building their nuclear weapons, but the Soviet Union didn’t stop they continue to build nuclear weapons. Well they also created a mutual defense alliance which was similar to the NATO but it was called the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw pact deals mostly with satellites and it controls the alliances better by keeping the military organize in other countries of the alliance. The Soviet Union gain power quickly and became very powerful, so therefore socialist government was protected.