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Both created to circumvent UN and both were created to defend against outside powers

How are NATO & Warsaw Pact Same/Different?

Differences

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grew to become a way to build and strengthen military forces throughout the Eastern European countries involved

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Halsall, Paul. Modern History Sourcebook. 1998. The Warsaw Pact, 1955. 12 May 2008

Lagniappe

The CIA secretly spiked the bread from a bakery in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments.

The Warsaw Pact was the name of the military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations

Purpose/Function of Warsaw Pact

he treaty was originally set at twenty years for the pact and another ten years following that, under the condition that none of the members dropped out of the alliance; however, in 1962, Albania stopped participating in the actions of the treaty and formally dropped out of the alliance in 1968.

Ultimately, in 1991, the remaining six countries decided to formally end their alliance and the Warsaw Pact was disbanded.

Facing off against the combined NATO forces are those of the Warsaw Pact, formed in 1955 to join the military forces of Eastern European countries.

Force the Soviets to devote more of their economic resources to defense

Came to be seen as quite a potential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance, and a definite opponent to American capitalism.

The signing of the pact became a symbol of Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe.

Second: pursue a policy aimed at a relaxation of tensions between East and West - a policy based to a large extent on general military strength.

Comparing & Contrasting NATO and Warsaw Pact

Conditions of the treaty included “total equality, mutual noninterference in internal affairs, and respect for national sovereignty and independence.”

Increase American defense expenditures to strengthen the U.S

One of the presiding conditions was that the leaders of both of these committees would be Soviet, so that Communist dominance would remain prevalent.

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Policy has two principals:

1st- is to maintain adequate military strength and political unity to deter aggression and other forms of military or political pressure.

The pact was used more as a means to keep the Soviet allies under a watchful eye than to actually make and enforce decisions

NATO or the Atlantic Alliance, was an alliance between fifteen Western Nations who felt threatened by the large number of Soviet Troops stationed along the Western border of Germany.

Purpose/Function of NATO

NATO, itself, is made up of ambassadors from the 15 countries involved and not the military

Speculation about Khrushchev’s ambition towards the power of the Communist party may explain the formation of the Warsaw pact – he wanted global domination for Communism.

NATO’s primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies’ military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies

One of Reagan's more controversial proposals

The majority of the actions performed by the Warsaw Pact were run by the Political Consultative Committee and the Unified Command of Pact Armed forces

Decrease Soviet access to high technology and diminish their resources

How did the role of NATO change under President Reagan?

The power and control of the Soviets in the pact sharply fell in 1989 and 1990 as a result of global Communist losses.

In 1990, Hungary stated that it would no longer participate in the military functions of the pact, and that it had plans to ultimately leave the pact in 1991, along with Czechoslovakia and Poland.

Strategic Defense Initiative: Reagan believed this defense shield could make nuclear war impossible, but the unlikelihood that the technology could ever work led opponents to dub SDI "Star Wars."

The Administration implemented a new policy towards the Soviet Union through NSDD-32 (National Security Decisions Directive) to confront the USSR on three fronts:

Reagan escalated the Cold War with the Soviet Union by making a sharp departure from the policy

Supporters responded that SDI gave Reagan a stronger bargaining position. Indeed, Soviet leaders became genuinely concerned.

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