The original twelve members of NATO in 1949 were the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
ANY OTHER MEMBERS are NOT among the first, such as the following current members of NATO, therefore, are not original members: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Germany (originally West Germany), Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey.
The countries that were among the first to sign the North Atlantic Treaty included USA, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Portugal, and many others.
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Please note. When you ask a negative question (i.e "what was not") then almost any answer is is true.In this case nearly ALL countries in the world were not the first to sign, including of cause those that have never signed the treaty.
country's first peacetime military commitment
NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was Canada's first peacetime military arrangement between the U.S., Great Britain, and western Europe. It was created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion.
Woodrow Wilson went to Europe to negotiate a settlement treaty after WW I ended,
NATO was first formed in 1949, an intergovernmental military alliance that was based on the North Atlantic Treaty.
the first people were the pilgrims and the europeans
Martin A. Smith has written: 'Russia and NATO since 1991' -- subject(s): International Security, National security, North Atlantic Treaty Organization 'NATO in the First Decade after the Cold War' -- subject(s): History, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, World politics
NATO is, of course, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949 in Washington DC. This committed each nation to consider an attack on one of them to be an attack on all. 14 more nations have joined since, with another 4 due in 2009. Oddly enough, the first time the treaty was actually invoked was in 2001, after the 9/11 attacks.