COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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To help combat the spread of communism around the world
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To support new democracies with money and military support
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To help Joseph Stalin rebuild the Soviet Union at the end of World War II
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The United States became afraid of the growing power of the Soviet Union
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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: -Like NATO, the Warsaw Pact focused on the objective of creating a coordinated defense among its member nations in order to deter an enemy attack.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -To prevent the spread of communism. What was the main purpose of NATO ? This meant that the USA could build air bases in Western Europe where planes equipped with nuclear bombs would be stationed and ready for use.