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Warsaw Pact

NATO Vs Warsaw Pact. NATO. Eastern Bloc. NORAD. 1953 East Germany Uprising. Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Warsaw Pact. NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Headquarter locate in Brussels, Belgium. The treaty was signed on April 4, 1949.

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Warsaw Pact

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  1. NATO Vs Warsaw Pact NATO Eastern Bloc NORAD 1953 East Germany Uprising Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Warsaw Pact

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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>.

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