NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO is an organization formed April 4 of 1949. It includes countries in Europe and North America. The main reason for this organization to form was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of these countries were attacked all other nations in NATO would come to their aide.NATO was formed by these countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The Warsaw pact was created in response to NATO and was formed May 14, 1955. It was consisted mainly by the Soviet Union and it's satellite countries. It was controlled by the Soviet Union, all nations in the Warsaw pact were communist. It was formed by the Soviet Union and seven of satellite nations. It was formed for mutual defense that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.