In 1949, there were 12 founding members: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.
In 1999, the three countries to join NATO were the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland.
There were 12 "founding members". Greece and Turkey were added in 1952 and Germany in 1955. So after 1955 and until 1999 there were 15 NATO members.
Turkey and Greece were admitted to NATO in 1952.
The UK was one of NATO's original members upon its formation on the 4th of April, 1949.
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Africa's countries are not members of NATO.
The membership of NATO was expanded as new NATO to include new members.
As Turkey is a NATO member, you can count all the NATO members most importantly U.S.
In 1952 Greece joined NATO
Nato did not exist during WW2.
In 1949 the original members were the USA, Canada, the UK, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Portugal. Germany was admitted in 1952, Turkey in 1955 and Spain in 1982. All other NATO member states joined after the end of the Cold War.
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