NATO

Aufgabe
international organization for the political and military defense against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact — until their dissolution in 1991. An important goal since then has been the support and defense of peace and freedom, particularly on the instructions of the United Nations or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Mitglieder
US, Canada, and Belgium, Denmark, France (which ceased to be a member of the military structure of the organization in 1966), Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal.
Countries entering later are Greece and Turkey (1952), the Federal Republic of Germany (1955), Spain (1982), Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia (1999)

Tätigkeiten
An important goal of NATO for more than forty years has been defense against the expansionist ambitions of Communism, and particularly defense against the USSR and the Warsaw Pact — until their dissolution in 1991.