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Cold War - NATO and the Warsaw Pact

By Hunter Hong

Table of Contents

  • The tense situation between East and West
  • Berlin Blockade
  • Creation of NATO
  • Creation of Warsaw Pact

Soviet Union's Response

Situation was tense.

  • Difference in ideology
  • Fear of communism/capitalism
  • Warsaw Pact was made in 1955
  • A defensive alliance consisting of the Soviet Union and its satellite states

Roosevelt, president of US at the beginning of cold war.

Warsaw Pact

Bibliography

Stalin, leader of USSR at the begging of cold war

  • Plante, Yvette, Jorda Miller, and J. A. Falk. Social studies eleven, student workbook. Surrey, B.C.: Hazelmere Pub., 2004. Print.
  • Cranny, Michael, and Garvin Moles. Counterpoints . Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2001. Print.
  • "Member countries." NATO - Topic: Member countries. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 10 Mar. 2016. Web. 22 Jan. 2017.

Krushchev, leader of USSR

at that time

Berlin Blockade

Map of East and West Germany

  • West introduced a new currency to West Germany which Soviet Union disagreed with
  • Soviet Union’s response, blocking the transportation which made it almost impossible for the West to send supplies to West Berlin
  • Berlin Airlift happened (massive supply lasting fifteen months)

Berlin Airlift

West Was Worried.

  • NATO is formed!

NATO

By the way..

Original members of NATO were:

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States

12 members! Now it is 28.

Truman, president of US when NATO was created

The End

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