12 countries originally founded NATO. These countries included: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States
NATO's role (when first founded) was to protect its member countries from the USSR. (Now Russia.) Since the USSR no longer exists, NATO's role is to protect the national sovereignty of its member countries.
The UK is still a NATO country and is aligned with all the other NATO countries.
Africa's countries are not members of NATO.
Several countries have developed partnerships with NATO without becoming full members. NATO's goal is to create dialogues between countries and help solve international conflicts. Some countries that have or have had partnerships with NATO include Russia and Ukraine. These countries are represented by Heads of Diplomatic Missions or Liaison Offices located at the NATO Headquarters.
No, Romania was part of the Soviet bloc when NATO was founded in 1949.
West Germany joined NATO in 1955.
The U.S. is NATO. We spend more money on NATO than all the other countries combined. NATO was founded to counter the Warsaw Pact. That alliance was dissolved at the end of the cold war. This is more of a political questions and long papers could be written on it. It boils down to Policeman of the World versus Isolationism.
West Germany joined NATO in 1955.
West Germany joined NATO in 1955.
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is switzerland apart of nato,seato,oas,or opec
NATO was designed to safeguard the freedom and security of its member countries by political and military means. NATO also plays a very important role in crisis management and peacekeeping with countries.