NATO and The Warsaw Pact

NATO was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which is a military alliance. NATO was an organization of countries that were involved in a mutual defense alliance. This means that if one them were attacked the countries allied to them would help them. The Warsaw Pact was another mutual defense alliance like NATO but an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The NATO's alliances were countries in Western Europe and North America. NATO was formed by these alliances because they wanted to stop the spread of communism and if one their alliance countries were attacked the other countries would come and help them. The alliances for the Warsaw Pact were communist states in Eastern Europe and Central Europe. Warsaw Pact was formed by these alliances because the communist military alliance wanted to maintain power over Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union gained both control over its neighboring European nations.