NATO

NATO was an organization made by countries that include Europe and North America. NATO stands North Atlantic Treaty. The major reason for the formation of NATO was that the countries involved would get a mutual defense alliance so that if one of  them were attacked all of  the other countries in NATO would come to help, as part of the alliance. The countries involved were USA, Canada, France, Britain, Benelux, Denmark, Iceland, Italy,Portugal and Greece, NATO consist of 28 independent countries. The Warsaw Pact was a organization made in (1955-91) by the 8 communist states in Eastern Europe. The countries were the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czecholovakia, Eastern Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The Warsaw Pact was to threat the NATO countries, it became weaker at the end of the Cold War in 1991.