- Source: Western Bloc
The Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, is an informal, collective term for countries that were officially allied with the United States during the Cold War of 1947–1991. While the NATO member states, in Western Europe and Northern America, were pivotal to the bloc, it included many other countries, in the broader Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa with histories of anti-Soviet, anti-communist and, in some cases anti-socialist, ideologies and policies. As such, the bloc was opposed to the political systems and foreign policies of communist countries, which were centered on the Soviet Union, other members of the Warsaw Pact, and usually the People's Republic of China. The name "Western Bloc" emerged in response to and as the antithesis of its Communist counterpart, the Eastern Bloc. Throughout the Cold War, the governments and the Western media were more inclined to refer to themselves as the "Free World" or the "First World", whereas the Eastern bloc was often referred to as the "Communist World" or less commonly the "Second World".
1947–1991 Western Bloc associations
= NATO
=* Indicates founding member state
= Five Eyes
=Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
= ANZUS
=Australia
New Zealand
United States
= Anti-Soviet communist or socialist states (until 1989)
=China (from 1961)
Democratic Kampuchea (from 1978)
Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (from 1982)
Socialist Republic of Romania (from 1964)
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (from 1948)
Somali Democratic Republic (from 1977)
= Compact of Free Association
=Marshall Islands
Federated States of Micronesia
Palau
United States
= METO, Baghdad Pact, CENTO (until 1979)
=Pahlavi Iran (until 1979)
Kingdom of Iraq (until 1958)
Pakistan (until 1979)
Turkey (until 1979)
United Kingdom (until 1979)
= Rio Treaty/Latin America
== SEATO (until 1977)
=Australia
Kingdom of Cambodia (1953–1970) (until 1956)
Khmer Republic (1970–1975)
France
Kingdom of Laos (until 1975)
New Zealand
Pakistan
Philippines
South Vietnam (until 1975)
Thailand
United Kingdom
United States
= Middle East/North Africa Region
== Asia, Southeast Asian, and Oceania Partners
== Sub-Saharan Africa
=Botswana
Ethiopian Empire (before 1974)
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Liberia
Malawi
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Somalia (from 1977)
South Africa
Togo
Malawi
Zaire
= Others
=Cyprus
West Berlin
Ireland
Switzerland
Post-1991 Western-aligned associations
= NATO
=* Indicates pre-1991 member state
= Major non-NATO ally (MNNA)
== Middle Eastern Partners
== Asia, South East Asian, and Oceania Partners
== Inter-American Partners
== Quadrilateral Security Dialogue
=United States
India
Australia
Japan
See also
Notes
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.
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