4 апр 1949 г. - 4 APR 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Created

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"The US-funded Marshall Plan (also known as the European Recovery Program) had fostered a degree of economic stabilization in Western Europe. However, the scars of the war were still fresh, the threat of communism loomed large and European states still needed confidence in their security before they would begin talking and trading with each other more openly. Truman concluded that military cooperation, and the security it would bring, should develop in parallel with economic and political progress and that only a truly transatlantic security agreement could deter Soviet aggression while simultaneously preventing the revival of European militarism and laying the groundwork for political integration.

Therefore, on 4 April 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an American military alliance, was created to protect allies of the United States, especially in Europe. In the Treaty’s renowned Article 5, the new Allies agreed “an armed attack against one or more of them… shall be considered an attack against them all” and that following such an attack, each Ally would take “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force” in response. Significantly, Articles 2 and 3 of the Treaty had important purposes not immediately germane to the threat of attack. Article 3 laid the foundation for cooperation in military preparedness between the Allies, and Article 2 allowed them some leeway to engage in non-military cooperation."

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