NATO and The Warsaw Pact

 NATO is an organization with United States and European countries. It was basically a protection policy. If any other NATO member was attacked the rest would come to aid it. NATO was important because the soviets were trying to promote communism. They weren't afraid to use force so the other countries needed protection. The Warsaw Pact was made up of the Soviets and their satellite countries. But in the Warsaw Pact the Soviets ran everything. They kept the other countries in the pact socialist governments and kept their own military there. The Soviets attacked other members of the pact then created a new pact in 1989.