apr 4, 1949 - NATO formed

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Founded by: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. The other member countries are: Greece and Türkiye (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) and North Macedonia (2020)

- The USA feared that the Western European countries would negotiate with the Soviet Union over their security worries
- Thus, an alliance of USA and the Western Europe countries was needed to strengthen the security of Europe
- The Western European countries were also fearful of an aggressive Soviet Union and were interested in a collective security agreement with the USA
- Therefore, under NATO, the member states agreed that they would come to each other’s defence if they were attacked by any external party

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