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NATO
Also Known As North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is a political and military alliance of North American and European states committed to mutual defence. It was founded in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C. by twelve founding members.
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The economic cooperation and collective-security thinking fostered by the 1948 Marshall Plan, alongside the Truman Doctrine, is widely credited by historians with building the transatlantic solidarity that led directly to the North Atlantic Treaty the following year.
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