AMERICA TO THE RESCUE
The Military Alliances
TheTrumanDoctrineandtheMarshal|Planwereeconomicstrategiesdesignedtofosterthe
in czechoslovakia and the Berlin Blockade
reconstruction of Europe. Events like the ioup
contain communism'
intervention was not enough to
suggested to the Ameiicans that economic
came with Military Defensive systems'
A greater detenent was need. The answer
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
brought together 12 countries in a mutual defence
NATO was establtsnei",inpti +fr, ig+g. lt
pact.Thepurposeofthea|liancewastocountertheperceivedmi|itarythreatfromtheSoviet
wiih coilective resistance and to prevent war
broc countries. The ailiance met Sovieiexpansion
through collective defence'
would rearm westem Europe' and assume a
By the terms of the treaty, the United states
LlJersnip role in the deience of the Western Wgd9.
a sufficient
did not berieve that the United Nations was
NATO signared that the western powers
-guarante! of peace in a World dominated by two hostile superpowers'
Members of NATO:
France, Belgium, the Netherlands' Denmark'
Original- the United States, Canada, Britain,
ttoinay, lceland, ltaly, Portugal, and Luxembourg.
1952-Greece and TurkeY
1982-5P-ain
lnlg55,WestGermanywasa||owedtojoinNATg"T:,ngneryousconcern.WestGermany
United Staies would have control of ihe Armed
was realmed only with the agreement tn'at tne
Forces.
The Warsaw Pact
the soviet Union met in warsaw with
Five days after west Germany joined NATO,
to sign the warsaw pact- Modered after NAT.'
representatives of *uln sovili saterite stibr
predge- to assist each other in the event of attact<'
it set up a miritary ailiance in which members
with headquarters in Moscow'
It also established a unified military command,
Y,i,l|lii;, Union, Arbania, Burgaria, czechosrovakia, East Germanv,
Hungary, poland, and
Romania.
Other Military Alliances
ailiances
of internationar organizations and military
NATO was onry one part of the new strategy
designed to contain communism'
Organization of American States (OAS)
lnlg4StheoASwasestab|ishedtoachieve..peaceandjusticeandtopromoteAmerican
so|idarity,,'|twasa|soestab|ishedtofightcommunismintheAmer|cas.
(SEATO)
South East Asia Treaty Organization
the U.S., Australia' New Zealand' the
paci'il.iuo",l
rne
iniesa.
creareo
was
of
SEATO
lt provided for mutual action in the event
philippines, Tnaitani, Pakistan, Briiain, and France'
an attack or intemal subversion'
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)
.+. r6+ar ron:mca c.F
after one of
grit"in
the Baghdad Pact; later renamed CENTO
engineered
U.S.
the
ln 1955,
"no
all.iance in 1958'
the signing memDers, lraq, left the
event of aggression. rt arso
assistance between members in the
rnitia*y, .ENTO offered mutuar
against the Soviet Union'
orovided a mutual defence policy
Y;ilff';"q,
states was an Associate Member'
rran, pakistan, and Britain. The United
(NORAD).
North American Air Defence Command
established nuclear
joineo
togeiher_to create NoRAD' lt
United States
ln 1g57, canada
thinorthem Arctic' The belief of an imminent
"no1n"
stations
control
anO
warning
tracking,
Eventually, surface"tiott
source for the creation of NoRAD.
the
was
Arctic
the
through
arso prepared for the
soviet Attack
stationed themserves in the arctic
warheads
nucrear
bearing
to-air missires
soviet attack. ..^^ .^^am6^ iho Nr
Command (NAADC).
North American Aeros ipace Defence
ln 1981, NORAD was renamed the