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Blocs!
The Western Bloc
Locations
Scandinavia
North
America
Western
Europe
Parts of
Eastern
Europe
Parts of
Middle
East
Countries
• USA & Canada
• Germany, France, U.K. Italy, Spain,
Switzerland, Ireland, Austria,
Scandinavia
Belgium, Netherlands, Greece,
others
Parts of
• Iceland, Denmark, Norway,
Western
North
Eastern
Europe
Sweden, Finland
America
Europe
• Romania, Croatia, Poland,
Parts of
Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Middle
Albania, Bulgaria, Latvia, others East
• Israel and Turkey
Geographical Regions
Scandinavia
Baltic States
The Low
Countries
The Alps
Iberian
Peninsula
Balkans
Geographical Regions
The
Northwest
New England
The Midwest
East Coast
Pacific Coast
The
Southwest
The South
Bodies of Water
North Sea
Baltic Sea
English
Channel
Mediterranean Sea
Bodies of Water
Puget Sound
Great Lakes
Great Salt
Lake
Baja
California
Gulf of
Mexico
Characteristics: Political
All democratic
Characteristics: Economic
All Capitalist
(Free Market)
Characteristics: Languages
Characteristics: Religions
Major Organizations
• NATO
– Created to “contain”
Communism during
the Cold War
– Democratic members
cooperated
– TODAY: NATO’s new
mission is to keep
peace and security in
Europe
• Warsaw Pact
– Created to protect the
Soviet Union during
the Cold War
– Oppressed communist
members dominated
by the Soviet Union
– Communism collapsed
in 1991, Warsaw Pact
Dissolved
– TODAY: many former
Warsaw Pact
countries in NATO
Major Organizations
• The European Union
– Common Market
– Common Currency
– Common Passport
Values
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Democracy
Capitalism (Free Market Economy)
Individual Human Rights
Free Trade/Globalization
Environmental Protection
Principle of Intervention
Influence
• The Western Bloc has the
highest influence in
international affairs
– 6 countries in the G8
(Group of 8)
• German, Italy, France, UK,
Canada, USA, Russia, Japan
– 3 permanent members of
the Security Council
• UK, USA, France, Russia,
China
Countries that don’t Exist Anymore
• East and West Germany  Germany
• Czechoslovakia  Czech Republic &
Slovakia
• Yugoslavia  Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia
Israel
• Founded after WWII with
the help of USA and UK
• The only Jewish State
• Supported by Western
Bloc during the Cold War
against the Arabs
(supported by the USSR)