The foundation of NATO in 1949, then its activities and expansion in the decades that followed, affected the Cold War in a curiously double-sided fashion. On the one hand, it served as a minimizing factor, since it provided unity and strength to 'free' Europe, which deterred significant aggression from Communist-dominated Europe. On the other hand, it also increased tensions in the Cold War: its growing strength was matched by a strength build-up in the other half of Europe, while conflicts in other parts of the world, where the Cold War's basic opponents sought to gain further allies and control, erupted partly due to the ongoing stalemate in Europe itself.
The foundation of NATO in 1949, then its activities and expansion in the decades that followed, affected the Cold War in a curiously double-sided fashion. On the one hand, it served as a minimizing factor, since it provided unity and strength to 'free' Europe, which deterred significant aggression from Communist-dominated Europe. On the other hand, it also increased tensions in the Cold War: its growing strength was matched by a strength build-up in the other half of Europe, while conflicts in other parts of the world, where the Cold War's basic opponents sought to gain further allies and control, erupted partly due to the ongoing stalemate in Europe itself.
Answer this question… How did the establishment of NATO affect the Cold War?
The NATO became a peacekeeping organization
NATO did nothing to prevent the Cold War. NATO was created because of the Cold War and may have helped prevent it from becoming a hot war.
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance led by the United States during the Cold War
by the NATO.
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NATO and Warsaw Pact
Ireland is not a member of NATO
No, it was formed after World War II in 1949.
To counter the Soviet's Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. WP was their NATO.
In 1952 Greece joined NATO