NATO Flashcards
Full Form of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance established by
North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) , 4 April, 1949
by US-Canada-other West Eur.count. for collctive securty against Russia
How many members in NATO?
30
Headquarters:
Brussels, Belgium.
Headquarters of Allied Command Operations:
Mons, Belgium.
When did france withrew from NATO?
1966 but came back in 2009
the collective defence clause of NATO’s founding treaty :
Article 5 of the Washington Treaty
has only once invoked , on September 12,2001 following the 9/11 attacks
___ which infused massive amounts of economic aid to the countries of western and southern Europe on the condition that they cooperate with each other and engage in joint planning to hasten their mutual recovery
Marshall Plan
Soviet Union signed up socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe to the __ , led essentially to a political-military alliance, was viewed as a direct strategic counterweight to NATO
Warsaw Pact (1955)
____ is a 50-nation multilateral forum for dialogue and consultation on political and security-related issues among Allies and partner countries
Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC)
___ is a programme of practical bilateral cooperation between individual Euro-Atlantic partner countries and NATO
Partnership for Peace (PfP)
____ is a partnership forum that aims to contribute to security and stability in NATO’s Mediterranean and North African neighbourhood
Mediterranean Dialogue
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia
___ is a partnership forum that aims to contribute to long-term global and regional security by offering non-NATO countries in the broader Middle East region the opportunity to cooperate with NATO
Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI)
Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates
WHICH TEARTY WAS SIGNED by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom, is considered the precursor to the NATO agreement. This treaty established a military alliance, later to become the Western European Union?
The Treaty of Brussels, signed on 17 March 1948
WHICH TEARTY WAS SIGNED by Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United Kingdom, is considered the precursor to the NATO agreement. This treaty established a military alliance, later to become the Western European Union?
The Treaty of Brussels, signed on 17 March 1948