america (the) problems by https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78 Nato... en-us 2019-05-07 17:12:28 UTC 2019-05-07 18:00:01 UTC hello@padlet.com MARSHALL PLAN sabrinocabraga https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357735650 Created by the US, 3 years after the end of World War II. This program was designed to economically stabilize the capitalist countries in Europe so that democratic governments could survive. Moreover, they wanted to minimize the Soviet influence around the world. Culminating into the Cold War]]> 2019-05-07 17:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357735650 WARSAW PACT sabrinocabraga https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357748639 The Warsaw Pact was a response to the NATO. It was an alliance between the communist countries aligned with the USSR: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Hungary, Poland, and Romania. Just like NATO the Warsaw Pact was a defensive measure in case of an attack.  The USSR would use this Pact as a way to gain tighter control and influence over other communist countries.]]> 2019-05-07 17:40:08 UTC https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357748639 NATO sabrinocabraga https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357755111 In 1948 the idea of Communism expanding in Europe drove the US and eleven other Western countries to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).  NATO was essentially a security pact which stated that a military attack on any of the countries in NATO would be an attack on all the countries in NATO.  The initial members of NATO were: USA, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal.
Six years later, in response to allowing Western Germany to join NATO,  the USSR would form a Communist alliance called the Warsaw Pact.  
]]> 2019-05-07 17:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357755111 NATO and the Warsaw Pact sabrinocabraga https://padlet.com/sabrinocabraga/i3xj9gtm4i78/wish/357758347 NATO and the Warsaw Pact created a political divide in Europe, communism vs. democracy.  These alliances would continue throughout the Cold War and would be the basis of many conflicts throughout this time.

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