NATO - Member Countries and Overview

NATO - Member Countries and Overview On April 1, 2009, two nations were recently conceded into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Accordingly, there are presently 28 part states. The U.S.- drove military partnership was made in 1949 because of the Soviet barricade of Berlin. The first twelve individuals from NATO in 1949 were the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. In 1952, Greece and Turkey joined. West Germany was conceded in 1955 and in 1982 Spain turned into the sixteenth part. On March 12, 1999, three new nations - the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland - brought the absolute number of NATO individuals to 19. On April 2, 2004, seven new nations joined the union. These nations are Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The two most up to date nations that joined as NATO individuals on April 1, 2009 are Albania and Croatia. To fight back against the development of NATO, in 1955 the Communist nations united together to shape the now-outdated Warsaw Pact, which initially comprised of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, and Romania. The Warsaw Pact finished in 1991, with the fall of Communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Most prominently, Russia stays a non-individual from NATO. Strikingly enough, in the military structure of NATO, a U.S. military official is consistently president of NATO powers so that U.S. troops never go under theâ control of an outside force. The 28 Current NATO Members AlbaniaBelgiumBulgariaCanadaCroatiaCzech RepublicDenmarkEstoniaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgNetherlandsNorwayPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited States