NATO and The Warsaw Pact.

NATO was an organization created by Europe and North America. (NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty). The major reason for the formation of NATO was that the countries involved would get a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to help, as part of the alliance. The Warsaw Pact was a treaty between all of the countries that bordered the Soviet Union. The NATO saw the Warsaw Pact as a threat, although it was supposed to be another defensive group. The Warsaw pact deals mostly with satellites and it controls the alliances better by keeping the military organize in other countries of the alliance. The Soviet Union gain power quickly and became very powerful, they were also able to keep the socialist government secure.