Creation of NATO (12 mai 1949 – 12 juin 1949)

Description:

- In US view, the USSR is being expansionary
- US sets up North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Mutual defense treaty where nations agree to use force to protect each other from foreign invasion
- Article 5: an attack on a NATO member is an attack on all
- ONLY a defensive alliance
- Western Europe + US led
- Original signatories: US, UK, Canada, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg

- USSR thought of NATO as the West ganging up on the USSR
- Part of modern conflict with Ukraine
- Soviets create Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe to mirror NATO

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