COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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to solve post-war problems as an agency of the US
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to create an economic alliance against germany and japan
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to protect themselves from possible Soviet aggression
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to counter military threat posed by the warsaw pact
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Detailed explanation-1: -The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance originally established in 1949 to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. When the Cold War ended, NATO was reconceived as a “cooperative-security” organization.
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: -During the Cold War, NATO focused on collective defence and the protection of its members from potential threats emanating from the Soviet Union.
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: -The foundations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) were officially laid down on 4 April 1949 with the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, more popularly known as the Washington Treaty. The Washington Treaty – or North Atlantic Treaty – forms the basis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization – or NATO.