The Warsaw Pact War: The Creation Of NATO

Exploration is the discovery of new things and finding new places. Encounter is where there is conflict say two empires clash together or new land is found. Exchange is where there is trade between two or more people or countries. In this case it would be the exchange of possibly money food and other resources. I chose the creation of NATO because WWII is very interesting to me and I think it would be very fun to do.

In 1949, the prospect of further communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact in 1955. The alignment of nearly every European

De Gaulle protested against America’s strong role in the organization and what he perceived as a special relationship between it and the United Kingdom. In a memorandum sent to President dwight D. Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 17 September 1958, he argued for the creation of a Tripartite directorate that would put France on an equal footing with the US and the UK. Considering the response to be unsatisfactory, De Gaulle began constructing and independent defence force for his country. He wanted to give France, into a larger NATO-Warsaw Pact War. In February 1959, France withdrew its Mediterranean Fleet from NATO command, and later banned the stationing of foreign nuclear weapons on French soil. This caused the United States to transfer two hundred military aircraft out of France and return control of the air force bases that had operated in France since 1950 to the French by

This shift started with the 1990 signing in Paris of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe between NATO and the Soviet Union, which mandated specific military reductions across the continent that continued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. At that time, European countries accounted for 34 percent of Nato’s military spending, by 2012 this had fallen to 21 percent. NATO also began a gradual expansion to include newly autonomous Central and Eastern European nations, and extended its activities into political and humanitarian situations that had not formerly been NATO concerns. The first post-Cold war expansion of NATO came with German reunification on 4 October 1990, when the Former East Germany became part of the Federal Republic of Germany and the alliance. This had been agreed in two plus four treaty earlier in the year. To secure Soviet approval of a united Germany remaining in NATO, it was agreed that foreign troops and nuclear weapons would not be stationed in the east, there are diverging views on whether negotiators gave commitment regarding further NATO expansion east. Jack Matlock, American ambassador to the Soviet Union during its final years, said that the West gave a “clear commitment”