Nato and The warsaw Pact

NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty. The NATO headquarters is located in Brussels, Belgium. The major 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 help . The North Atlantic Treaty was signed on April 4, 1949 to protect themselves from the Soviet Union.
In response to this, the Warsaw Pact was created on May 14, 1955. It consisted of the Soviet Union and its allied countries. These countries also made a treaty to protect each other and assist them if they needed it.The Soviet Union kept military personnel in the other countries of the alliance and kept them running socialist governments. It was the first step in an attempt to strengthen the Soviet Union's hold on its friendly countries. This program was undertaken by Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolay Bulganin after they took power in early 1955. Eventually the Warsaw Pact was dissolved in 1991.