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NATO and the Warsaw Pact
I can explain why NATO and the Warsaw Pact were formed.
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Year 11
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NATO and the Warsaw Pact
I can explain why NATO and the Warsaw Pact were formed.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- The USSR and Germany were considered threats to Western Europe after WW2.
- NATO was founded in 1949 as a military alliance of Western countries.
- West Germany was allowed to join NATO in 1955.
- The USSR opposed West German entry into NATO.
- The Warsaw Pact was an alliance of Eastern European countries founded in 1955.
Keywords
Alliance - an agreement between countries or political parties to work together to achieve something
Controversial - something that causes a lot of disagreement or argument
Rearmament - the process of supplying yourself or others with new weapons, especially in order to become a strong military power again
Common misconception
NATO was established in response to the USSR setting up the Warsaw Pact.
The Warsaw Pact was a response to NATO's formation in April 1949 (which itself followed the Berlin Crisis and Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia).
Ask students whether the formation and expansion of NATO means that the West should receive most of the blame escalating tensions in the Cold War during the mid-20th century.
Teacher tip
Content guidance
- Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
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6 Questions
Q1.
Write the missing word. An is an agreement between countries or political parties to work together to achieve something.
Q2.
Which superpower was a member of the Warsaw Pact?
Q3.
Write the missing word. The USA was a member of .
Q4.
Why did France initially oppose West German membership of NATO?
It feared West German communism.
It feared West German economic competition.
Q5.
Which of the following was a characteristic of most Warsaw Pact member states?
They were capitalist.
They were democracies.
Q6.
Starting with the earliest, sort the following events into chronological order.
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