NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO is an organization formed by the Europeans and all of North America. The formation of NATO was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to their aide. The Warsaw Pact was made up of the Soviet Union and its satellite countries. It was another defense alliance like NATO. The Soviet Union had military men in the other countries of the alliance to have them running socialist governments. This attempt to strengthen the Soviet Union's hold on its satellite countries was only one of its ways.