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Whose side are you on?

Whose side are you on? NATO • April 4 th, 1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is signed (NATO) • Comprised of the United States and ten other Western European states • A commitment to come to each other’s aid if one was attacked • Considered very provocative by the Soviets United States, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal

Whose side are you on? The Warsaw Pact • By 1955, Soviets orchestrate the ‘Warsaw Pact’ • A military alliance between Soviet Union and satellites of Eastern Europe • ‘Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance’ Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania

Whose side are you on? SEATO • The South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) • A defensive treaty that sought to halt the spread of Communism through South-East Asia • Branded ‘ineffectual’ after Vietnam War and disbanded in 1977 United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand

Enter the Chinese

Enter the Chinese • China, the world’s most populated country, became communist in 1949 • Ceased to became an Empire in 1911 • Was divided until 1949, when Mao Tse-Tung proclaimed ‘The People’s Republic of China’ • Soviets had aided Mao in getting into power • Mao and Stalin had different interpretations of Marxist thought, however. . . • They signed a Treaty of Friendship in 1950

The ‘Reds’