HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Countries wanted to work together to plan an attack on the Soviet Union to end the Cold War.
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Countries wanted to raise funds and resources to work on ending world hunger.
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Countries wanted to write treaties between themselves for previous and future wars.
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Countries wanted to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism throughout the world.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. The Alliance’s founding treaty was signed in Washington in 1949 by a dozen European and North American countries.
Detailed explanation-2: -There was a fear that the USSR would attack a Western European country to spread communism. Communist countries were established in China and North Korea. The formation of NATO meant that the USA could place weapons in member states to stop the communists from attacking.
Detailed explanation-3: -NATO allowed the member countries to work together to protect against Soviet aggression. The Soviet Union wanted to expand their ideologies further across Europe and the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union responded to NATO by creating its own military alliance with seven other Eastern European communist states in 1955, dubbed the Warsaw Pact. But the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ensuing collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, paved the way for a new post-Cold War security order in Europe.
Detailed explanation-5: -During the Cold War, NATO focused on collective defence and the protection of its members from potential threats emanating from the Soviet Union. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of non-state actors affecting international security, many new security threats have emerged, such as terrorism.
Detailed explanation-6: -The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).