HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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NATO
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NAFTA
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UN
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OPEC
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Detailed explanation-1: -The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1948 Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom signed the Treaty of Brussels creating the Western Union for the defence of Western Europe.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why was NATO established? By 1949, Eastern European countries were communist. There was a fear that the USSR would attack a Western European country to spread communism. Communist countries were established in China and North Korea.