NATO and The Warsaw Pact

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, is a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by 10 Western European nations the US and Canada due to the Berlin Blockade which rose Europe's fears of Soviet aggression. The Soviet Union saw NATO as a treat and started it's own alliance which was called the Warsaw Pact. It included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. The East Germans built a wall to separate East and West Berlin. The wall represented a world divided into rival camps. But there were some countries that didn't want anything to do with the alliances such as India and China, who distrusted the Soviet Union.