NATO-Warsaw Pact

How did the NATO/Warsaw Pact influence the cold war? The NATO was formed on April 4th 1949 by the United States, Canada and the western Europe countries. NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it consists in forming a collective defence. The purpose was to strengthen the western allies military response to a possible invasion of Western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies that was created on May 14th 1955 in Warsaw, Poland. Also, known as Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. It was signed among the Soviet Union. The NATO/Warsaw pact influenced the cold war in the way that they made military organizations to take control over nuclear weapons. Throughout this essay it will be shown how the European security was affected under military spends like nuclear disarmament, and how the convention forces affected the NATO/Warsaw pact.

First, there is always at least two sides in any conflicts, in this case the conflict is the cold war and the two sides are NATO and the Warsaw Pact and this was caused because, at the time, Americans and Western Europeans felt that if war was to happen between west and Stalin’s Russia, it would take place in Europe. However, the two sides avoided direct confrontation and instead

However, it was not an immediate response to NATO. In consequence, it does not actually indicate a turning point in the U.S-Soviet relations and it was actually less important in the development of the Cold War. The collective defense arrangements in NATO served to place the whole of Western Europe under the American nuclear umbrella. The idea was that if any members of NATO were attacked, the United States would respond with a large-scale of nuclear attack. A threat of this form of response was meant to serve as a deterrent against Soviet aggression on the