Warsaw Pact

The answer to the question, “Who started the Cold War?”, has been the subject of debate for 70 years. Unlike a situation where the first bomb is dropped or weapon fired, the start of the Cold War was more subtle and shrouded with a cloak of opposing ideologies. Ultimately, the Cold War sprung up as a result of the controversy between communism and capitalism. The differences are most pronounced with respect to the economic systems. In communist controlled countries, private ownership of property…

and Vietnam War. The goal of the US was to prevent communism from replacing democracy. In response to NATO, the Soviets formed their own eastern European alliance called the Warsaw Pact in 1955. The book states that “the creation of NATO in turn led the Soviet Union to feel insecure, and that it then created the Warsaw Pact in order to balance NATO and return to its prior perceived level of security” (3). However, NATO was the first long-term military alliance of twenty eight countries from…

influences. Between the years 1945 and 1950, the two competitors broke out into war. Both sides were fighting for what they believed in thus resulting into this major conflict. Not only were these two nations apart of it, the members of NATO and Warsaw Pact joined in to help their allies. Due to the Soviet Union and its allies’ belief, provocation, and the Cuban missile crisis, they were most likely to be responsible for starting the Cold…

Europe were involved in what is known as the Cold war. Foreign policies across the globe were concerned with a few major concepts, of which two were the most prevalent: containment and the Domino Theory. The countries not involved in NATO and the Warsaw Pact were highly competed for, in terms of annexation and expansion, by those two groups, in the attempts to make either capitalism or communism the dominant ideology. This conflict lasted for 45 years after the end of World War two and it can be…

intelligence towards the Warsaw Pact, through the transmission of classified documents concerning the internal organization of the Communist Party, the military capabilities of the Soviet army and the plans for the satellite countries, especially East Germany. When the Berlin crisis rose in 1958, the espionage from Col. Oleg Penkosvkiy was crucial to anticipate the plans of Khrushchev over Berlin, thus preventing a military escalation between NATO and the conventional forces of the Warsaw Pact.…

Communism in modern times often brings to mind the Soviet Union. However, few think to deeply consider the smaller nations affected by the Soviet Union's widespread control. Oppressed for years following World War II, Poland fought for the sake of its own nation in the 1980s. On September 1, 1939, World War I began with Germany's invasion of Poland. Though Britain and France provided some assistance to Poland, no effective assistance was given. By the end of that September, Hitler along with…

brought about by the Cold War were: the United States and the Soviet Union accumulated too many nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. the NATO Treaty Organization (North Atlantic military cooperation treaty signed by Washington in 1949) and the Warsaw Pact (between the Soviet Union and its European satellites, this treaty organized to Eastern Europe from the point of view military blocs were formed military as had happened with NATO in Western Europe in 1955). He came to the destructive…

of Poland as well as to other countries. Germany viewed the Poles as “less than human” and wanted their land for lebensraum, the German notion of needing more living space for the Aryan race. Hitler made extra precautions and created The Nazi-Soviet Pact that ensured that Russia would not interrupt the German invasion. But Germany couldn’t have done it without its superior military, being its Air Force the Luftwaffe as well as the tactics used. The strength of the German military had come from…

For instance, World War Two. It came with many policies, one of them being appeasement. Appeasement, is when a country or person gives someone something in exchange to not upset them and/or possibly get something in return. For example the Munich Pact of 1838, negotiated between Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain allowed Hitler to annex part of Czechoslovakia, hoping that it would make him happy and keep him at bay. There are many other policies and multiple more wars, but I will…

World War II was one of the worst conflicts in history the world has faced, whose impact on the world could still be remembered today. It serves a reminder of the devastating effects of what would happen if we plunge into another world war. This essay will focus on the effects of WWII on the two Allied powers, France and Soviet Union (USSR) after 1945, the end of WWII. Some of the common immediate effects they share following WWII, after victory was declared for Allied powers in 1945, were the…