NATO

involved in political acts. Also, Canada takes a lot of responsibilities when it comes to being part of big organisations. For example, the United Nations, NATO, and NORAD. But, how does Canada manage all of its “responsibilities”, and still become one of the greatest nation in the world? There many examples behind this question.…

prevent the further expansion of communism by the Soviet Union. As a result, the United States enacted this policy through numerous strategies including the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). One of the strategies used by the United States for preventing the Soviet power was the Truman Doctrine. It was declared to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 for controlling the…

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as NATO, was created in the year of 1949. As stated in the article, “The North Atlantic Treaty Organization”, “NATO is a formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe. From its inception, its main purpose was to defend each other from the possibility of communist Soviet Union taking control of their nation.” In other words, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an alliance between North America and Europe. This…

This has resulted in civil wars and ethnic conflicts. One place where this has occurred is in Serbia. Serbia was one of the parts of the former Yugoslavia, which had once been a large Communist country. Yugoslavia was already beginning to separate into smaller states by the time that Slobodan Milosevic became president. Milosevic had plans to recombine some of the states under the leadership of Serbia, but the newly independent states had other ideas. The conflicts grew into a bloody civil war.…

Feeling threatened by NATO, the USSR created the Warsaw Pact six years later in order to preserve communism and their country itself. According to document #2 the United States and its allies were the members of NATO while the USSR and allies (Eastern European countries) formed the Warsaw Pact. Based on the different government types of the two alliances it can be inferred…

capitalist country, was against the idea and did its best to prevent Stalin’s plan for a communist world. In order to halt the growth of communism, the Unites States created NATO, the Containment Policy and the Marshall Plan, and helped the South sides during the Korean War and Vietnam War. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military alliance between Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the…

"strategies" but rather could be mulled over are: Truman's hard-line approach toward the USSR; his exclusion at Potsdam of advising Stalin about the nuclear bomb and the dropping of it at Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the German Question; the Berlin Airlift and NATO. Iron Curtain: Soviets refuse to uphold Declaration of Liberated Europe – Agreement to allow European governments to choose their own governments. • Soviet troops stationed in various East European countries • Poland, Romania,…

Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) operation that performed air strikes over Libya, destabilizing the country and enabling the execution of Libya’s dictator of 42 years, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) justified the Libya Intervention for NATO allies on the grounds of a humanitarian threat thought to occur at the direction of Gaddafi. However, the humanitarian crisis never occurred. Thus, I conclude that the United States, UNSC, and the NATO allies…

Self Interest in International Courts and Tribunals International justice and law is a tool used by powerful states directed against smaller states. I would go even further and argue that international bodies, when controlled by powerful states, is a tool meant to intervene specifically in conflicts where those same powerful states could benefit. International tribunals, specifically the ICC, have motives that make the pursuit of justice desirable. Through the lens of a realism, I see the ICC…

Atlantic Treaty was to create a pact of mutual assistance to counter the risk that the Soviet Union would seek to extend its control of Eastern Europe to other parts of the continent” (NATO), Article Five as outlined in the treaty plays a vital role in protecting the participating nations. The Article provides that when a NATO ally is the recipient of an armed attack, all other Alliance members will consider it to be an act of violence against them as well and take action. Each country is left…