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12 Cards in this Set
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What does NATO stand for?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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When was NATO set up?
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April 4, 1949
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Who signed the treaty?
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USA, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Norway & Iceland
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Where did the USA think the main threat from the USSR was?
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Political
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What did the USA believe Europe was under threat from?
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Political expansionism from the USSR
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What was the message the treaty was intended to send?
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to highlight the United States detereminism not to allow expansionism
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What other name does the Warsaw pact have?
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Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
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What was the USSR's grounds for objection to NATO?
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That it went against the principles upon which the United Nations had been founded.
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What happened only months after the formation of NATO?
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The Soviet Union tested its first nuclear weapon.
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What did the testing of USSR's first nuclear weapon do to NATO's role?
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Transformed from political into military as the USA lost the complete upperhand.
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When was West Germany accepted as a member into NATO?
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May 1955
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Which countries were part of the Warsaw pact?
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Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union
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