NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO also known as North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between the Western countries in Europe and the United States in April 4 1949. After the World War II had ended in greatly damaged the European's economy and military, and the U.S agreed to give them supplies. It was an organization constitutes a system of collective defense where its members agreed to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. Around that time period, the east use to be communism and NATO was made to stop communism from spreading to the west side of the world.

The Warsaw Pact was an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe in May 14, 1955. The Warsaw Pact was created in response to West Germany joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1955. They were similar to NATO in ways such as political Consultative Committee, followed by a civilian secretary-general, while down the chain of command there was a military commander in chief and a combined staff, other than that their similarities ended around that point. NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries never engaged each other in armed conflict, but fought the Cold War for more than 35 years often through proxy wars. Proxy wars is a war that results when two powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly. Their plan were the complete opposite from the NATO, they were trying to spread communism and stop western influence.