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What is NATO's role today?
NATO's role (when first founded) was to protect its member countries from the USSR. (Now Russia.) Since the USSR no longer exists, NATO's role is to protect the national sovereignty of its member countries.
How did the USSR respond to NATO?
It formed the Warsaw pact in 1955
What happen to the relationship between the US and US after NATO was formed?
The USSR created their WARSAW Pact to counter NATO.
What side did NATO and the Warsaw Pact represent durin the cold war?
US/NATO vs USSR/Warsaw Pact.
What western bloc alliance formed in 1949 to contain the USSR?
NATO
When did NATO from?
NATO was form in 1949
What organization was created in reaction to NATO?
After the USSR collapsed, all of the former Soviet countries remained in a military alliance. This military alliance is called the Commonwealth of Independent States or CIS.
Who formed NATO and why?
NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed in the late 40s by the US and non-Communist Europe to defend against the USSR.
Why did the US Canada and most the western European countries form the north Atlantic treaty organization (NATO)?
The primary role of NATO was to present a united front against the USSR and its satellites, which for many years had conventional military superiority in Europe.
Who were the main enemies in the Cold War?
For the most part the two main protagonists were the US vs. USSR. On a broader scale it was NATO vs. the Soviet Block.
What main idea drove nations to form organizations such as NATO seato and the oas?
These alliances were formed during the Cold War, our of fear that the USSR would just invade and take over any country which was not part of a powerful alliance that would come to the defense of such a country.
What was the iron curtain in World War 1?
a term used to describe the boundry of the USSR from the NATO countries
