NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO, also known as the, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was a pact between countries. If one of the NATO countries were to be attacked, the other NATO allies would come into aide of the other country. NATO was establish after the signing of North Atlantic Treaty. Western Europe relied on the United States' nuclear weapons in case of an attack by Russia. Six years after NATO was established, the Warsaw Pact. The Warsaw Pact was a communist military alliance and was formed to keep control over Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was very superior to NATO, but its technology failed soon, so in 1991, they declared the Warsaw Pact "non-exsistent."