How did NATO cause the cold war?

Answer 1

It led to the Cold WAr because the Soviet Unions government didnt agree to all of NATOs terms and policies.

+++ It goes a lot further than that. The USSR did far more than disagree with NATO!

Its stated desire, based on the theories of Karl Marx and others, was world domination under Communism, a totalitarian system - Russia's own or if that was not possible, then of her political allies. The West was fundamentally opposed, believing in a world of democratic nations.

The end of World War Two saw Europe carved up by a treaty between East (Soviet-led Communist bloc) and West (Western European nations, the UK and its Commonwealth, USA and many others).

Eastern Europe became part of a new Russian Empire.

Germany was divided, with Berlin an enclave within the Soviet half of the country, and itself split into E and W by a border that became physical in the early 1960s by the ruthless and almost-overnight erection of the fortified Berlin Wall. West Germany established her own capital in Bonn.

The USSR was basically a military machine, and the West responded in kind, hence the Cold War in which both blocs faced up to each with considerable bluster, mutual spying, heavy re-armament and the ever-present, terrifying threat of nuclear war. Such war - World War Three as it would have been - nearly became reality when the USA spotted the USSR installing missiles on the latter's ally, Cuba. For some days the whole world watched nervously as the US ordered the USSR to remove them. Luckily the Kremlin backed down, and took their missiles back home.

NATO, led principally by the Pentagon, is the West's military alliance that developed in those days, and though largely an American arrangement its members included most Western European nations, including the UK.

It is not true to blame NATO for the Cold War: a war needs both sides, and that was definitely the case here.

Answer 2

The formation of NATO did NOT lead to thwe cold war. You have it backwards. -The Soviet Union started the Cold war and NATO was set up as a western alliance to protect western nations .