How The Looming Soviet Threat Gave Rise To NATO

Name: How The Looming Soviet Threat Gave Rise To NATO
Uploaded: 2019-04-03 05:00:00Z
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Description: It's been 70 years since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization came into being when 12 countries pledged to defend each other should any of them come under attack. RFE/RL takes a look at NATO's origins, and how Soviet expansionism and its objections to a United Nations force, led to its creation.

April 03, 2019 07:00 CET

By Neil Bowdler and
AP

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It's been 70 years since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization came into being when 12 countries pledged to defend each other should any of them come under attack. RFE/RL takes a look at NATO's origins, and how Soviet expansionism and its objections to a United Nations force, led to its creation.