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The Cold War Era

Question
CBSEENPO12040247

Study the map given below and answer the questions that follow : Study the map given below and answer the questions that follow :

(i) Which countries were the members of NATO and Warsaw Pact ?
(ii) When were these alliances signed ?
(iii) What was the object of Warsaw Pact ?
(iv) Which was the main clause of NATO ?

(i) Which countries were the members of NATO and Warsaw Pact ?

(ii) When were these alliances signed ?

(iii) What was the object of Warsaw Pact ?

(iv) Which was the main clause of NATO ?

Solution
(i) (a) NATO members : Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy, Norway, Denmark,Portugal, Spain, Greece, Netherland and Turkey.

(b) Warsaw Pact members : East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland andUSSR.

(ii) (a) NATO – 1949

(b) Warsaw Pact – 1955.

(iii) The object of the warsaw Pact was to counter NATO’s forces in Europe.

(iv) The NATO states declared that armed attack on any one of them in Europe or North America would be regarded as an attack on all of them and they would help each other.