NATO and the warsaw pact

NATO was a sort of like an alliance between North America and Europe. It basically said that if one country inside the NATO was attacked, the other countries that were also part of this will come to help them out the best way they can. They will also help out financially so that they can rebuild after world war two and they can get their army back to the way it was. It was supposed to go as planed under the Marshall plan. It was a way to protect their alliance during the cold war and if any war should have occurred during the cold war. While the Soviet Unions alliances worsened NATO had gotten stronger.
Events during the year 1968 in Czechoslovakia made them view NATO as a source of protection against their war enemies. Then in the year 1979, they made up a new program that will hopefully build up their defense all while trying to stop the Soviet Union from using nuclear weapons.
The Warsaw Pact was a response to the NATO. This involved Soviet Union and their satellite countries which were countries that surrounded it. The leader of this pact was ,of course, the Soviet Union. They made the rest of the countries inside this pact to follow their lead and run socialist governments. All of this was to hopefully strengthen the Soviet Union, they claimed power in 1955. This pact was renewed in 1980 in hopes it would continue for the next 20 years. Sadly the Warsaw Pact was officially claimed non-existent in 1991.