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'The main reason why alliances were formed among western powers in the…

- - - - One of the main implications from the establishment of NATO was greater US presence in Europe, NATO created justification for the establishment of further military bases in and around the European continent
        
        France was against the idea of West Germany becoming a member of NATO as they feared it would be a risk to their national security. The FRG clearly had an alignment with Western ideals
        
        In Nov 1949 - the FRG joined the Council of Europe and therefore the European Economic co-op
        
        Overall: Agree, the creation of NATO was clearly a decision made in response to Soviet aggression.
        
        CAVEAT: The US did have a LOT of dominance over NATO, evidencing that this may be due to imperial interests
- - - - Response to Soviet aggression
        
        NATO
      - The UN
- - - - European empires in the 1950s were mostly intact and this limited the number of new members whilst ensuring that the USA had the support of these states because their imperial European allies were pro-Western
        
        Mainland China was prohibited from taking a seat at the UN (which also led the USSR to boycott)
        
        The security council (the decision-making arm of the UN) consisted of the USA, Britain, France, China and the USSR (alongside some non-permanent members). This structure reinforced Western power
        
        CAVEAT: ANY member could veto, for example, the USSR had vetoed 75 times in comparison to France who only vetoed once
- - - - The general motivation for its creation was hesitancy towards the reconstruction of Japan, this being understandable given the imperial nature of Japanese policy during the second world war
        
        The agreement was that the West would allow for the reconstruction of Japan, in return for the establishment of this collective security alliance