NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The first members at the time of the Cold War that were invovled was the United States, the Denmark, Canada, France,United Kingdom , Iceland,Luxembourg , Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, and Italy. NATO was created for to provide a defensive alliance against any nations that would attackor try to attack any of the alliance members. It was like a gang of countries that would defend each other in the event that another country had attacked one of them. In a form of indirect retaliation, Russia had created an alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. It consisted of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The Soviets developed the Warsaw Pact in retaliation to the development of NATO.