Events preceding the establishment of the north atlantic alliance pact

• Author: Cret Vasile - Pantea Madalina
• Position: PhD Lecturer, AGORA University, Faculty of Law and Economics - PhD University Lecturer Madalina Pantea
• Pages: 63-68

EVENTS PRECEDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NORTH

ATLANTIC ALLIANCE PACT

Vasile Creţ

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Mădălina Pantea

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Abstract

This paper presents the events preceding the establishment of the North Atlantic

Alliance and the role played by every international power in its accomplishment. There is

also presented a chronology of international facts and factors that led and influenced this

major world treaty.

Key words: alliance, doctrine, history, events.

Introduction

Certainly, the statements of the victorious powerful promising leaders met the hopes of

the people for peace, security, cooperation and al so proclaimed the United Nations Charter

Preamble.

Paradoxically, the noble goals to crush the aggressors unified the great powers which

made an alliance that was strong (in which western democracies had fought with great

power with the Communist totalitarian regime).

Unfortunately, this unit could not have continuity, because, before the end of the

antifascist war between the West and the Soviet Union serious differences and disagreements

appeared.

The way in which the Russians have fulfilled their military obligations, has made the

West look with confidence to them, as true friends.

1.1 End of World War II

End of the Second World War on 8 and 9 May 1945 (for some units and Romanian

including Austria and Czechoslovakia until 12 May) meant the victory of the Great Coalition

(the given name): U.S., USSR, England and United Nations against the Axis powers.

There should not be overlooked that the capitulation of the Third Reich also counted

France among the winners of the signatories.

Also, in the Pacific and Asia regions, the great conflagration ended on September 2nd

with the Japanese surrender to the U.S., China, England and the USSR.

Yalta myth has developed that, somehow or other, Roosevelt and Churchill gave

Stalin Eastern Europe.

In the Yalta agreements, it was agreed that people in these countries should decide

their own government through free elections.

Stalin, the Soviet political leader believed that the Red Army would be accepted as a

liberating army.

Kremlin leaders have been very affected when they discovered that the red army was

regarded by the Polish, Romanian and others as a new invasion force.

According to the Westerners, Stalin hoped to reach the Atlantic, this being one of the

reasons for not having fulfilled the Yalta agreements.

One more reason which led the Soviets to believe in this was the existence of the

strong communist parties in France and Italy.

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PhD Lecturer, AGORA University, Faculty of Law and Econo mics, vasilecret@univagora.ro

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PhD University Lecturer Madalina Pantea