North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Examples of North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the following topics:

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949.
  • This treaty, and the Soviet Berlin Blockade, led to the creation of the Western European Union's Defense Organization in September 1948.
  • These new negotiations resulted in the North Atlantic Treaty, which was signed in Washington, D.C. on April 4, 1949.
  • This Treaty formally created NATO.
  • The September 2001 attacks signalled the only occasion in NATO's history that Article 5 of the North Atlantic treaty has been invoked as an attack on all NATO members.

• The Cold War and Containment

  • The word containment is associated most strongly with the policies of United States President Harry Truman (1945–53), including the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact.

• Collective Military Force

  • Collective defense is an arrangement, usually formalized by a treaty and an organization, among participant states that commit support in defense of a member state if it is attacked by another state outside the organization .
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is the best known collective defense organization .
  • This map depicts current members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, one of the primary examples of a collective defense organization.

• The Ford Administration

  • With the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam nine months into his presidency, U.S. involvement in Vietnam essentially ended.
  • Still in place from the Nixon Administration was the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT).
  • The Cyprus dispute turned into a crisis with the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, causing extreme strain within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance.
  • American offensive operations against North Vietnam had ended with the Paris Peace Accords, signed on January 27, 1973.
  • Ford meets with Soviet Union leader Leonid Brezhnev in Vladivostok, November 1974, to sign a joint communiqué on the SALT treaty.

• Containment to Rollback

  • By attempting to push North Korean forces beyond the 38th parallel, the US pursued a policy of "rollback" rather than containment.
  • The notion of military rollback against the Soviet Union was proposed by strategists in the late 1940s, and by the Truman Administration against North Korea in the Korean War.
  • President Harry Truman (1945–53) and the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a mutual defense pact.
  • However, the military success of the Inchon landing inspired the U.S. and the United Nations to adopt a Rollback strategy and overthrow the Communist North Korean regime, allowing nationwide elections under U.N. auspices .
  • Under the rollback strategy, UN troops under the direction of General Douglas MacArthur advanced across the 38th parallel into North Korea in October of 1950.

• Peacetime Politics

  • Truman oversaw the Berlin Airlift of 1948 and the creation of North Atlantic Treat Organization (NATO) in 1949.
  • The one time during his presidency when a communist nation invaded a non-communist one—when North Korea invaded South Korea in June 1950—Truman responded by waging undeclared war.
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization built a military barrier confronting the Soviet-dominated part of Europe.

• Across the Atlantic: France and Britain

  • The Treaty of Alliance was a defense treaty formed in the American Revolution that promised French support to the United States.
  • The Treaty of Alliance with France was a defensive agreement between France and the United States, as shown in .
  • The treaty outlined the terms and conditions of this military alliance and established requirements for the signing of future peace treaties to end hostilities with the British.
  • France's increased presence in the West Indies forced Britain to redeploy troops and naval units away from the North American colonies to secure their holdings in the Caribbean.
  • The Jay Treaty (also known as Jay's Treaty, The British Treaty, and the Treaty of London of 1794), was officially known as the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America.

• Settlement of the New Land

  • The United States began continental expansion immediately after the Constitution of 1789 through war, treaty, land deals, and settlement.
  • In the mid nineteenth century, war with Mexico resulted in the acquisition of Texas, much of the southwest, the Gadsden Purchase, and California; stretching the scope of the United States from the Atlantic to Pacific.
  • The continental expansion of the United States was mostly accomplished through treaty, purchase, or war with southern neighbors over the span of the nineteenth century.
  • Division of the North American continent by US and foreign powers in 1999
  • The division of North America among European powers by the middle of the eighteenth century

• Jay's Treaty

  • The British were continually impressing American merchant sailors into British service, thereby violating the American flag flying on American ships in the Atlantic.
  • Washington submitted Jay's Treaty to the U.S.
  • As a fledgling republic, the United States had no effective navy and only a small standing army, and was isolated from the entanglements in Europe that had led to wars and violence throughout the Atlantic.
  • The map shows major territorial concessions following the Treaty of Paris.
  • Describe the role Jay's Treaty played in the political disputes of the early republic

• The War and Its Consequences

  • Most of the North American fighting of the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War) ended on September 8, 1760, when the Marquis de Vaudreuil surrendered Montreal—and effectively all of Canada—to the British.
  • The treaty resulted in France's loss of all its North American possessions east of the Mississippi except for Saint Pierre and Miquelon, two small islands off of Newfoundland, marking the beginning of an era of British dominance in North America.
  • The proclamation created a boundary line (often called the proclamation line) between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast and American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • As a result, the boundary line was adjusted in a series of treaties with American Indians.
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix and the Treaty of Hard Labor, both signed 1768, and the Treaty of Lochaber of 1770, opened much of what is now West Virginia and Kentucky to British settlement.