HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To counter NATO forces in Europe
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To create awareness about war in Eastern Alliance
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To prevent countries of Asia from other countries
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To enable the central role in world politics
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Detailed explanation-1: -Although nominally a “defensive” alliance, the Pact’s primary function was to safeguard the Soviet Union’s hegemony over its Eastern European satellites, with the Pact’s only direct military actions having been the invasions of its own member states to keep them from breaking away.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. The Warsaw Pact supplemented existing agreements.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 and represented a Soviet counterweight to NATO, composed of the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom – all of this in the context of countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union.