The USA and the Soviet Union’s opposing political and economic beliefs caused the Cold War. NATO and the Warsaw Pact were established. Both competed in an arms race. Flashpoints – Hungary ...

As such, the expansion of NATO has been blamed for increased militarization in Europe and has led to a new conflict similar to the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact’s alliance of countries extended the ...

Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. - Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” ...

A military pact between the countries of the former Soviet Bloc (USSR ... and thus recognize the preponderance of the USA. NATO was founded in 1949 in Washington, but became less prominent after the ...

NATO will have doubled its membership since what was thought—certainly by the Russians—to have been the end of the Cold War. All the nations once part of Moscow's Warsaw Pact—East Germany ...

NATO’s assumption that the war would gradually escalate to nuclear weapons would have been fatal against an adversary that... Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Warsaw Pact plan makes clear ...

As one of the most challenging periods in world history, the Cold War was ... agree that the Warsaw Pact, established in 1955, directly responded to the formation of NATO. Signees of the Warsaw ...