NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO is a group of European and north America alliance. The reason for NATO was that the countries involved wanted a mutual defense alliance so that if one of them were attacked all of the other countries in NATO would come to help. If Russia attacked U.S NATO would attack Russia. The Warsaw pact was basically the Soviet Union and it was a arm race between Russian and America. We started making weapons which were mostly nukes. We came up with a new bomb called the H- bomb which was short for hydrogen bomb which was stronger than the atomic bomb. America and Russia kept on making them but never used them because they were scared that if one is fired there would be a nuclear war it would destroy all life on the earth. That's another reason why NATO was there to back up America. Soon the Russia economy fell proving that Communism was a bad type of way to rule a country.