Transcript NATO and Warsaw Pact

NATO AND WARSAW PACT
USA
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Not willing to give up power
gained during WWII
Believed that liberated
countries of Eastern Europe
should determine own
government
SOVIET UNION
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Feared capitalist West
Refused to give up control of
Eastern Europe after WWII
Feared freed Eastern
European countries would
not choose communism
Stayed in areas they
conquered during WWII
DEVELOPMENT OF COLD WAR
TRUMAN DOCTRINE
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1947
“it must be the policy of
the United States to
support free peoples
who are resisting
attempted subjugation
by armed minorities or
by outside pressures.”
Greece & Turkey
MARSHALL PLAN
1947
 Gen. George Marshall believed communism
was successful in countries with economic
problems
 Rebuild Europe
 COMECON
 Policy of Containment
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NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 1949
 Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands,
Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal,
Iceland, Canada, United States
 Provide mutual help if anyone on them
attacked
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WARSAW PACT
1955
 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East
Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, & Soviet
Union,
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ARMS RACE
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Both sides believed large arsenals would
prevent war