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West Germany joined NATO
west Germany joined NATO
West Germany joined NATO
NATO - the greatest influence in this alliance was the US. Most of West Europe was in NATO Warsaw Pact - led by the USSR. Most of east Europe was in this alliance.
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance led by the United States during the Cold War
Joseph Stalin imposed what Winston Churchill would call the Iron Curtain after World War II. The figurative curtain separated Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact countries from NATO led and neutral countries.
The Soviet union
NATO was created by twelve countries in 1949 as part of the mutual defense against the Soviets. Fear of nuclear warfare by the Soviets led to this group decision.
West Germany joined NATO
The U.S.-led "Western World" and the U.S.S.R-led "Communist World" were the two major power blocs that emerged after the war. In 1961, the Non-Aligned Movement was founded by Yugoslavia, and consisted of the neutral nations (Communist Yugoslavia had fallen out of favor with the U.S.S.R. and was not a member of the Warsaw Pact)
It is the NATO-led, UN mandated operation in Afghanistan
ethnic tension had led to war in the region.