COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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ease the transition into democracy
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help institute Capitalism in Eastern Europe
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limit the threat of invasion from Western Europe
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challenge the economic successes of the Common Market
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. 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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. The introduction to the treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact indicated the reason for its existence.