Summary.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was formed by reaction to the Berlin Blockade by the Allies. Created in Brussels, Belgium, NATO was formed as a universal peacekeeping force providing services.
NATO and Warsaw Pact
- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Based on the North Atlantic Treaty, signed on 4 of April 1949
- NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium
- The organization constitutes a system of collective defence
- Includes 28 members in North America and Europe
- Soviet Berlin Blockade led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defence Organization
- The Warsaw Pact
- A mutual defense treaty between eight communist states in Eastern Europe
- Established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955
- Warsaw Pact was a Soviet military response to the integration of West Germany into NATO
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