NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was an alliance of countries in Europe and North America. The Warsaw Pact was another alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was created because of the creation of NATO. Both alliances' stated that if one of those countries' were to be attacked all the other countries in NATO or the Warsaw Pact would go help them out. Both alliances were made for defense reasons. In the picture above, the countries in blue represented those in NATO and those in red were in the Warsaw Pact. NATO was formed because the countries in it wanted a mutual alliance and so that the people in their countries felt safe and not threatened by other countries. The Warsaw Pact was formed in response to the creation in NATO. NATO was formed by the United States, mostly to help other countries and to keep communism from spreading. The Warsaw Pact was formed by the Soviet Union, so that they can spread communism.