NATO and The Warsaw Pact

nato is an organization that has countries from europe and north america. The reason of the formation of nato was that the countries wanted a defense alliance so that if they were to be attacked the other countries in nato would come to help. Around 1950 nato had an agreement for the u.s to protect other members. Some of the european members had doubts that the u.s would do the agreement and protect them. In 1979 nato began a new program that would help build up the defenses and also stopping the soviet union from building nuclear weapons. European cities were protected in 1983 with the development of ballistic missiles which was made to ward off soviet attacks. The signing of the nuclear treaty began the breakdown of the warsaw pct in 1987. The warsaw pact consisted the soviet union and its satellite countries. The soviet union attacked czechoslovakia in 1956, czechoslovakia was a member of the warsaw pact. Then the warsaw pact was renewed in 1986 for 20 years. In 1991 the countries in the warsaw pact decided to dissolve.