Western Bloc
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The Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, was a coalition of countries that were allied with the United States, a member of NATO, and/or opposed the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. The latter were referred to as the Eastern Bloc. The governments and press of the Western Bloc were more inclined to refer to themselves as the "Free World" or the "Western world", whereas the Eastern Bloc was often called the "Communist world or Second world".
Since the end of the Cold War, until recently, further escalation between China and Russia became tense since the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, such as the conflicts in the Middle East (particularly in Iran, Syria and Yemen), Venezuela and Ukraine.[1]
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Western Bloc associations
NATO
- Belgium
- Canada
- Denmark
- France
- Germany (from 1990)
- West Germany (1955-1990)
- Greece (from 1952)
- Iceland
- Italy
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Portugal
- Spain (from 1982)
- Turkey (from 1952)
- United Kingdom
- United States
Countries which have become members of the NATO after the end of the Cold War (1991)
- Albania (from 2009)
- Bulgaria (from 2004)
- Croatia (from 2009)
- Czech Republic (from 1999)
- Estonia (from 2004)
- Hungary (from 1999)
- Latvia (from 2004)
- Lithuania (from 2004)
- Montenegro (from 2017)
- North Macedonia (from 2020)
- Poland (from 1999)
- Romania (from 2004)
- Slovakia (from 2004)
- Slovenia (from 2004)
Other NATO-affiliated states and partners
- Afghanistan
- Azerbaijan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Georgia
- Iraq
- Kosovo
- Moldova
- Ukraine
- West Berlin (1949-1990)
ANZUS
Compact of Free Association
CENTO
- Iran
- Iraq (until 1959)
- Pakistan
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
Rio Treaty
- Argentina
- Bahamas (from 1982)
- Bolivia (until 2012)
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba (until 1959, withdrew in 2012)
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador (until 2012)
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Mexico (until 2004)
- Nicaragua (until 2012)
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Trinidad and Tobago (from 1967)
- United States
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
SEATO
- Australia
- France (until 1965)
- New Zealand
- Pakistan (until 1972)
- Philippines
- Thailand
- South Vietnam (until 1975)
- United Kingdom
- United States
East Asia
- Republic of China
- Japan
- South Korea
- Hong Kong (until 1997)
See also
- Allies
- Axis powers
- Eastern Bloc
- Free world
- First World
- Second World
- Third World
- Operation Condor
- Western betrayal
- Western world
References
Sources
- Matloff, Maurice. Makers of Modern Strategy. Ed. Peter Paret. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971. 702.
- Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 447,454.
- Lewkowicz, Nicolas. The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War
New York and London: Anthem Press, 2018.
