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1. NATO
•The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)
•Military or defense alliance formed in 1949 by
12 countries in Western Europe and North
America
•Original purpose – to protect its members from a
possible attack from the Soviet Union (Containment)
•First peacetime alliance in U.S. history
•An alliance of nations with shared values. All
members are DEMOCRACIES
•Has been the most important U.S. alliance for
the past (almost) 60 years

3. NATO Treaty – Article 5
•“The Parties agree that an armed attack against
one or more of them in Europe or North America
shall be considered an attack against them all…”
•No NATO member was ever attacked during the
Cold War – it never had to use its military forces
•The first (and only) time a NATO member was
attacked was…
•September 11, 2001

4. Who is in NATO?
•1949 – 12 Original Members
•U.S. Canada Britain
•France Iceland Portugal
•BelgiumNetherlands Luxembourg
•1952 – A Little Farther from the North Atlantic
(Demonstration of Truman Doctrine)
•Greece Turkey
•1954 – A New Democracy
•Germany
•1982 – Death of Fascist Dictator Franco
•Spain

5. The NATO Alliance

6. The Warsaw Pact
•1955 - The Soviet response to the creation
of NATO
•Consisted of the Soviet Union and its six
satellite countries in Eastern Europe
•East Germany
•Poland
•Hungary
•Czechoslovakia
•Bulgaria
•Romania
•The Warsaw Pact no longer exists

8. Eastward Expansion
•As democracy spread throughout Eastern Europe,
NATO is adding new members
•1999 – Three former Warsaw Pact members were
admitted into NATO
•Poland
•Hungary
•The Czech Republic
•2002 – Seven former communist states in Eastern
Europe added
•Estonia
•Latvia
•Lithuania
•Slovenia
•Slovakia
•Bulgaria

9. 2002
•How do
you
think
Russia
feels
about
this?

10. NATO-Russia Council
•NATO-Russia Council
•This was a RAPPROCHEMENT between NATO
and Russia
•May 2002 – Both sides signed an agreement
•Russia WILL:
•Be given a say at the table with the 26 NATO
members
•Be an “equal partner” in discussions on key topics

11. NATO-Russia Council
•Russia WILL NOT:
•Be a member of NATO
•Be bound by NATO’s defense pact
•Have a veto over NATO’s decisions
•Have a vote over NATO’s expansion