The Berlin Blockade and airliftwhat happened?

Y10 GCSE History

• Describe NATO and Warsaw Pacts
• Analyse sources about the creation of
NATO
• Evaluate whether the creation of defence treaties only increased tensions between the East and the West

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• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• After the blockade of Berlin, Western powers met in
Washington and signed the North Atlantic treaty on April
4 th 1949
• The treaty meant that member states would work together on a number of issues
• The main issue was collective defence- its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any other nation/s

• Using the sources on P333, answer the following question:
• What evidence is there in sources 37-
41 to indicate that NATO was a purely defensive alliance?

Interpretations:
Source Analysis and Evaluation
Source 37
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Article 3: To achieve the aims of this Treaty, the
Parties will keep up their individuals and collective capacity to resist armed attack.
Article 5: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in
Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all”
Extracts from the NATO charter
Source 38
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“The Soviet government did everything it could to prevent the world from being split into two military blocks. The soviet
Union issued a special statement analysing the grave consequences of affecting the entire international situation that would follow from the establishment of a military alliance of Western powers. All these warnings failed, however, and the North Atlantic Treaty came into being.”
Stalin commenting on the formation of NATO, 1949

Source 40
Source 40“Your play, Joe”

How did the Soviets and its allies react?
• In 1955, The Warsaw Pact was signed by The Soviet
Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary
Poland, Romania and Albania
• It was a mutual defence treaty-similar to NATO and was operate alongside COMECON
• But it was seen as being primarily motivated by the
Soviets’ desire to maintain control over military forces in
Central and Eastern Europe

• Did the establishment of the two treaty organisations in the 1950s only stand to increase tensions between the East and the West?
• Write one argument FOR and one argument AGAINST

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• The Korean War
• Using information from the video and
P338 of the textbook, answer the questions on the worksheet

• 1. How were North and South Korea formed?
• 2. Why did the conflict start?
• 3. Why did the USA want to intervene?
• 4. What role did the United Nations play in the conflict?
• 5. What other country became involved in this war?
• 6. How did the war eventually come to an end?

How well do you think the USA reacted to the war in
Korea? Analyse both sides of the argument
Positively Negatively

• NATO is…
• The Warsaw Pact was…
• The Korean War was…