Warsaw Pact

NATO Vs Warsaw PactNAT

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NORADEastern Bloc

1953 East Germany Uprising

Hungarian Revolution of

1956

NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization•Headquarter locate in Brussels, Belgium.•The treaty was signed on April 4, 1949.•US General Dwight D. Eisenhower was

the first NATO supreme commander.

Warsaw Pact

•The Warsaw Pact was formed in may 14, 1955 and lasted until 1991.

•The Warsaw Treaty was in response to the forming of NATO.

•There was eight countries that formed the Warsaw Pact.

NORAD: North American Aerospace Defense Command

•NORAD was formed in 1957.•NORAD Consisted of two countries Canada, and The United States.•It was formed to help defend against the USSR’s bombers if need be.

Eastern Bloc.

•Former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe.▫It consisted of East Germany, Poland,

Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Albania, Yugoslavia

•All of these countries had puppet governments put in place by the USSR.

1953 East Germany Uprising

•Approx. 20,000 arrests and 21 people died.

•Following the uprising there where 40 executions that took place.

•The crush of the up rise required a total of 20,000 armed troops

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

•Approx. 200,000 protesters fled as refugees.

•Over 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet troops were killed in the conflict.

• lasted from 23 October until 10 November 1956.

•By January 1957, the Soviet government had crushed all remaining resistence.

Work Cited

•"Hungarian Revolution of 1956." Web.•NORAD at 40. Web. 3 Mar. 2010.

<http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/airdef/norad-overview.htm>.

•NATO. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/index.htm>.

•Wikipedia. Web. 3 Mar. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact>.