THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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to unite Western Europe in response to the threat of Communist aggression
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to aid those trying to flee Communist oppression in Europe
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to halt the spread of Communist aggression in Asia
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to bring greater equality to the economic in Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -NATO’s fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies’ freedom and security by political and military means.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Truman Doctrine, 1947 Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom – all of this in the context of countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union. The Alliance’s founding treaty was signed in Washington in 1949 by a dozen European and North American countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -From its founding, NATO’s primary purpose was to unify and strengthen the Western Allies’ military response to a possible invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.