NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO was an organization formed as a defensive alliance in some European nations and North America. It was so that any nation included in NATO was attacked, they would help each other. Along with NATO came the Marshall Plan where everyone supported each other economically, helping them. At first some nations doubted that the United States would keep to their word, but after the events thst occured Czechoslovakia, NATO's security grew.

The Warsaw Pact was with a pact with the Soviet Union and the surrounding countries. It was created to defend the nations from any attack with an immediate counter attack. Just like NATO only on the European side. The Warsaw Pact was started by the Soviet Union in case of an attack from the United States.

Both these organizations were made for one purpose. They were to protect the included nations from attack from others not in the organization. It was not much of an offensive move as it was a defensive move.