The United States, Great Britain and ten other countries came together after WOrld war 2 to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. How did the Soviet Union react to the creation of NATO?

The Soviet Union formed Warsaw Pact

Explanation:

The United States strove to contain Soviet power by establishing 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO linked the United States, Denmark, Portugal, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Britain, France, and the Benelux countries. West Germany included in 1956, and Spain in 1982. In response to NATO, the Soviet Union formed the Warsaw Pact, consisting of the armed forces of the Soviet Union and its European satellites.

a drastic rise in oil prices ended decades of postwar.