NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization that includes countries in Europe and North America. The reason for the formation of NATO was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to their aide. The Warsaw pact consisted mostly of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was supposed to be another mutual defense alliance like the North Atlantic Treaty, and was created in response to it. The Soviet Union dominated the alliance. The Europeaians formed NATO, and the Soviet Union formed the warsaw pact.