COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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to bring greater equality to the economies in Europe
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to halt the spread of Communist oppression in Europe
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to aid those trying to flee Communist oppression in Europe
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to unite Western Europe in response to the threat of Communist aggression
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Detailed explanation-1: -NATO’s fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies’ freedom and security by political and military means. NATO remains the principal security instrument of the transatlantic community and expression of its common democratic values.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In reaction to West Germany’s NATO accession, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European client states formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.