NATO and Warsaw Pact

NATO was a North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was created on April 4, 1949.This organization included Europe and North America.NATO was a defence alliance , If any of them would be attacked they would come to each others aid. NATO made new programs, in 1979. The new programs had helped build up defense and helped stop the Soviet Union, from building up their nuclear weapons. The Intermediate Nuclear Treaty in 1987 began the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact. The soviet union controlled it and kept military personnel in other countries. Czechoslovakia and Hungary were members of the Warsaw pact. They were attacked on 1956 by the Soviet union.