Cooperation between the United States and the USSR during World War II came to an end soon after the war's end in 1945. The presence of Soviet armies in the center of Europe and Communist infiltration into "popular front"...

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is by far the most important of a set of politico-military organizations of co-operating Western states set up after the Second World War, during the early part of the cold war, to protect non-communist states...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance of 26 countries that are committed to protecting, by political and military means, the freedom, common heritage and civilizations of its members’ liberal democracies. NATO was founded...

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NATO, Russia agree to work for common security By JEFFREY ULBRICH Associated Press Saturday, December 8, 2001 Brussels, Belgium -- NATO and Russia agreed Friday to draw closer in the interest of greater security for all, starting work on a...

WASHINGTON - To get pseudo-macho for a second, Slobodan Milosevic has not cried "uncle" after one month of NATO's initially limited and probing military campaign against his murderous regime. Instead, Milosevic has cried "nephew" -- far from good enough, but revealing nonetheless. There's...

U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan have peaked this year at about 26,000, as officials tried to push NATO countries to take on more security responsibility, while keeping enough U.S. forces there to counter the stubborn insurgency._ Total U.S. forces have fluctuated from a low of...

NATO said Wednesday that it killed too many Afghan civilians during fighting last year against resurgent Taliban militants, but that the Western alliance was working to change that in 2007.The acknowledgment came one day after President Hamid Karzai's latest plea for foreign forces to use...

This essay describes North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and its beginning.

Essay briefly details the reasons that NATO was created when it was.