Open AccessNATO AND THE WARSAW PACT
Author(s) -
N. Wagner
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
scientia militaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2309-9682
pISSN - 2224-0020
DOI - 10.5787/8-4-761
Subject(s) - expansionism , north atlantic treaty , political science , communism , treaty , arms control , power (physics) , economic history , peace treaty , law , history , politics , physics , quantum mechanics
The origins and aims of NATO The formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation had, as its basic origin, the fear of communist expansion. Ironically, it was Roosevelt and Churchill who were probably indirectly responsible in helping the spread of Soviet power. As a result of their sanctioning the Yalta Agreement and ,heir condonation, without any legal right, of Soviet military control over, inter alia, Manchuria and Korea, the basis was laid for communist expansionism in Eastern Europe