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Grade 5 Social Studies · World 6: The War Turns Cold · Level 62
NATO
Explain why allies joined together.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 62
- The airlift showed that the Soviet Union would keep testing the West. Western countries wanted a way to protect one another.
- In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO.
- The heart of the treaty is simple: an attack on one member is an attack on all. It's like friends promising to stick up for each other.
- This was new. Americans had long avoided peacetime alliances. Remember how the Senate had rejected the League of Nations? Now the country made a lasting promise.
- In 1955, the Soviet Union answered by forming the Warsaw Pact with its Eastern European partners. Europe was now split into two armed camps. NATO still exists today.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:
- SS5H5.b — Explain how the United States sought to stop the spread of communism through the Berlin airlift, the Korean War, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.