What is NATO?

North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO) is often misunderstood as what it is. NATO was founded in response to the threat posed by the Soviet Union. The Alliance’s creation was part of a broader effort to serve three purposes: deterring Soviet expansionism, forbidding the revival of nationalist militarism in Europe through a strong North American presence on the continent, and encouraging European political integration.

How Germany was removed from the Soviet Union?

The world was startled in August of 1939 when Hitler and Stalin announced that they had agreed on a non-aggression pact. For a decade, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany had been at loggerheads. Nazi Germany had a distinct anti-Bolshevik, antisemitic policy, was very much directed against the Soviet Union. Germany and the Soviet Union signed a Nonaggression pact on August 23, 1939. The terms of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact were the two countries agreed not to attack each other, either independently or in conjunction with other powers, not to support any third power that might attack the other party to the pact, to remain in consultation with each other upon questions touching their common interests, not to join any group of powers directly or indirectly threatening one of the two parties, to solve all differences between the two by negotiation or arbitration. It was expected to last for 10 years but was given the notice to terminate it before 1 its year of Expiration.

Germany joined NATO

In May 1955, West Germany joined NATO, which prompted the Soviet Union to form the Warsaw Pact alliance in central and eastern Europe the same year. The West Germans subsequently contributed many divisions and substantial air forces to the NATO alliance. The prospect of a rearmed Germany was understandably greeted with widespread unease and hesitancy in western Europe, but the country’s strength had long been recognized as necessary to protect western Europe from a possible Soviet invasion.