NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
- NATO’s 75th anniversary was marked by a summit in Washington.
- NATO’s 32 members pledged 40 billion euros in security assistance for Ukraine.
- Over 500,000 NATO forces are stationed on the eastern flank.
- NATO was formed on April 4, 1949, by 12 Western European and North American countries.
- The Warsaw Pact was formed by the Soviet Union in 1955.
- NATO-Russia cooperation was suspended in 2014 after Russia annexed Crimea.
- In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.
- Additional NATO battlegroups were deployed in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
- NATO members committed to spending at least two percent of their GDP on defense since 2014.
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