NATO REGIONAL ALLIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST DURING THE COLD WAR
NATO REGIONAL ALLIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MIDDLE EAST DURING THE COLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: End of World War II led to decolonization leading to increased internal autonomy of the former colonies. Where European investments were significant colonial powers have defended their interests by regaining wars and repression in which will be supported, especially by Eastern uprising movements. John Foster Dulles ontinued the policy of containment trying to fill the gap between NATO and American position in Japan. Thus he developed an alliance to oppose communist expansion in Southeast Asia: Manila Pact. American and Soviet interests clashed and the Middle East expanding and there wore Cold War between the two superpowers and on February 1955 was signed in Baghdad act which led to the formation CENTO, alliance modeled on that shared the same view with NATO, thought of as a mutual security treaty.

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