NATO and the Warsaw Pact

NATO is a military alliance that was established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty. It was established when the Treaty of Brussels was signed by Belgium,Netherlands,Luxembourg,France. This alliance would then later become the Western European Union.
The Warsaw Pact was an organization of communist states in Central Eastern Europe. This treaty was modeled on the NATO treaty both treaties were similar in that there was a political Consultative Committee, followed by a civilian secretary general, that was the only similarities between the two. Members of the pact pledged that if they were attacked they would help each other.