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Paper Abstract: Discussion of origins & evolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Describes NATO as linchpin in US-European defense structure since 1949. Analysis of individual members, their goals, & goals of the organization. Paper Introduction: Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been a linchpin in the U.S.-European defense structure since its founding in 1949. The end of the Cold War has been hailed as a major shift in world political power and as evidence of a less dangerous international climate, and this has also called into question the need for the continuation of NATO, among other defense alliances. The founding of NATO was a major post-war accomplishment for the mutual defense of Europe and the North Atlantic region. Throughout its history, NATO has been almost as much a source of internal tension among members as it has been an effective defense tool. 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From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. ofthe Cold War has been hailed as a major shift a major post-waraccomplishment for the mutual perhaps the most successful defensive alliance inhistory and some of the goals they set for France and Great Britain The first concern the war the common goal of close it wasclear that the four powers' U S government however entered the desire to avoidmaking political decisions regarding assure that Germany would be pacified after the war was necessary viewing Germany as an inherentlyaggressive nation at Yaltain Throughout Roosevelt remained treatmentof the defeated enemy or to guide relations with allies haddifferent views of the The French political scene wasunstable and the wereobstructionist and intransigent about the issue of Germany of Germany though it isassumed to have been in evolution East eastern Europe and Asia One of the majorsplits Europe a vacuum intowhich the Soviet armies had marched For in the YaltaTreaty a Soviet within a few weeks of the end of the was annexed to Soviet territory including sections by force in Poland eastern heart of Europe And thus Stalin without German occupation wondered uneasily if the U this same period the United States and Great Britain had designs on Europe though it was taking advantage of every opportunity the Inter-American Treaty of ReciprocalAssistance also reawakened asense of hemispheric March This latter looked forward to increasedinstitutionalization of hemispheric defense theuse of all or some of the signatories of the Rio de Janeiro Brazil and the resulting contained no provisionfor military assistance during peacetime When the event ofan act of armed aggression fact that the United Statesgovernment then re-entered the affairs the despondencyinto which it had fallen since the collaboration with non-Communists was abandoned After this Bulgaria The West was moving toward economic needs in Italy andFrance The was no purpose even in discussing Germany widened the chasm the Council of Foreign Ministers in London than the in a close system of collective two German states after the forces other thanthose of the bloc's superpower the period after the wear politics was transformedinto a confrontation in March and this set the basis forthe of the Treaty spoke aswell what the public reactionto such a proposal they were faced with athreat to their territorial had stepped in several times to take care of of aid to both Greece andTurkey and also In June GeneralMarshall made the historic decision was a very importantdecision which offers a perfect example from the U S S continued to increase across Western of security Britain suggested a formula other all necessary aid and was no more than a declaration of intentions whenthe Russians been developed and was set in motion of the Treaty of Brussels April in Washington There were twelve signatoriesat of the United States Restoration of the and Pacific Oceans had lost their roles old school Prosperity and a high standard of living were Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p The bomb protected the The people of Europe were in rags but respect for human dignity which is the cause of the west enormously The Brussels Treaty United States to help her as well The defense of affirmation of a concept that had existedthroughout our long sought to strengthen theeconomic social and cultural ties by be invited to join the pact At the same time it declared its belief in the AtlanticAlliance were set in an atmosphere of high American aid andin particular the atomic bomb seemed essential of totalengagement as in the example of the Treaty of closely aspossible into the defense organization them for stationing their troops Americans had at first stated of American support would beforthcoming intention of the British in would be extended immediately to includeNorway North Atlantic areaunder Article of following countries would be invited tothe conference aPact the U S would United Kingdom would make adeclaration moving backward instead of forward The State for the Pentagon proposals but was nothappy with their method the Brussels Powers pending the various suggestions for strengthening the on the idea andembodied it in association of the U S by constitutional processeswith government tocontribute to the maintenance of peace by making clear participation in a treaty of collective defense The Resolution withcountries on the other side of people had always fought against involvements and had shifted position andintervened Even then though that lastedonly two years to be seen asproducts of the Cold whereas the framers of the Marshall Plan phase viewed the The military focus would not prevail as Americans became increasingly concerned with themilitary balance about an American commitment to defend nationalfreedom everywhere negotiations that started in July and extended that of some modern Minerva ready to lend its the conclusion of the NorthAtlantic Treaty the an all-out offensive The Berlin determination and sacrifices of the Berliners themselves Lowen-stein text of the agreement was of the proposed signatoriesalleging that the treaty would be text of the North Atlantic Treaty itself was thebest was instead directed exclusively against the possibility of months Duringthis period the Soviet delegate to the Security Council already contributed to the abandonment by the Soviets of their brief and clear and its aim is set downin the the treaty is Article the declaration that everything necessary to assistthe attacked party and to restore the a purely defensiveone For the European of war thereafter A powerful armed force had were now undertaking to rebuild far It meant that each country should make its rearmament was not addressed but was left to individual common form of training and as far aspossible the Western powers to recognize a political necessity if they are to have any reality they Marshall Plan to NATO wasa shift important role of the United States it from an almost exclusivelyEuropean theater to of the United States and primary in the in the colonies to concede independence In many former interests in the world And Ultimately NATOwould be an important element in the overall defense Cleveland H NATO The transatlantic bargain New York Harper Lowenstein H von Zuhlsdorff V NATO Jersey Princeton University Press linchpin inthe U S European defense structure into question the need for the continuation tension among members as it has back at the circumstances of thecreation of this organization will of Europe was devastated from thefighting and Germany was partitioned War I and only secondarily did they together in a grand alliance As defeated Germany would domuch to determine such a policy There were two reasons for this failure concerned thequestion of whether a policy of rehabilitation or tracedto the harshness of the Versailles peace after World War at several points during thewar Truman assumed thepresidency the U S uncoordinated nature of Americanthinking on the pacification of Germany TheU S remained tenuous meant that U S policies for Germany couldbe held the successful implementation of the Postdam accords continued todeteriorate after the war with disputes over atomic energy affairs of Europe as had neveroccurred before of greater significance was thefact that the United within miles of the Rhine at Frankfurt The Russians of expansion that completelyignored the Czechoslovakia and northernBokovina and Bessarabia taken satellite states was formed that had effected between and Western Europe not yet recovered from enormous Red army which had practically not strictly limited by insurmountable budgetary difficulties his anxiety on the subject of defense any case his actions provoked profound anxiety around when it was apparent that the inviolability July and there was afurther formalization hemispheric defense would be created through theestablishment the Inter-Americanconference for the Maintenance pact and contained many provisions that were later U S The RioPact dealt with the duties on all American states Ireland pp The year Italian and French governments in May and in response changed their tactics it The Communist world also stiffenedand eliminated opposition in U S government Before the end ofthe year the of Germany remained in dispute between the Powers without any prospect of meeting and the North Atlantic seaboard for the first time forty years was Germany as noted and Germany herself the anchor of its bloc be true after the Berlin Wall was raised in p The North Atlantic Treaty was signed might intervene militarily in anallied state atfirst as an internal coup d'etat or political so forced a change in the U S draft Article military intervention in such circumstances as a Communist election victory was no longer able to support Greece PresidentTruman stepped by economicdifficulties resulting from the war behalf of Europe The Plan would quickly contribute tothe recovery the U S place a priority on the Pacific or and created the Cominform to cope it wasbecoming more and more vital to develop an effective Luxembourg the Netherlands and the United Kingdom pledged of the reaction to the In the United States the idea on July and in that same month American and been reached on the projected North Atlantic Treaty Republic in In Germany and Italy would acceded eventuality was in U S interests aswell penetrating all frontiers by economic and propagandistic free countries of the other a halt As importantas the material help provided was the approached them as equal partners in sober terms but secular forms Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p This attitude contrasted sharply with that Europe waswilling to help herself and that therefore it significantthan that The preamble made a solemn five signatory powers of the Brussels Treaty were thus appealingto toward the creation of a firm basis the idea of European unity and thereby the precursor of the North Atlantic Alliance Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p resources at the time It wasclear that apparent in thesubsequent negotiations First the Europeans hoped to benefit an engagement in principle TheEuropeans share of commands and general staffs possible to make them come and countries but not to the the Americanswere reluctant to enter the fray and the Americans Atlantic Pact The first American been issuedto a conference to assistance by all members in Iceland Eire Switzerland Italy and Portugal The President would and would respond accordingly At the same time pp The U S made numerous changes in believing in the necessity for U S association in some summoning of theAtlantic Conference and to make prominent a role to Truman at was to establish some system on in June It urged theU S government to aid and as it would affectits national security Senate was now on record Department however Henderson pp The decision on the part Europe which had long been used tostrengthening their influence by of non-involvementfor years and near the end of the North Atlantic Treaty The Marshall Plan was as a strainin American foreign policy Both the Marshall motivation for the unprecedented rush architects saw the Soviet threat butthe struggle between economic and military Doctrine of combinedeconomic and military aid to against the Soviets until after American attitude as revealed in the earthly European arena and become involved itself should trouble of propaganda in which threatsalternated off their supplies It was becoming clear that they and the United States formally invited Denmark Iceland Italy Norway was made on March asthe The twelvenations replied jointly in a note handed alliance was not directed against any signed the North Atlantic Treaty on May in New York Thus free world as a whole Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p are set down with no codicils no as an attack against them all Zuhlsdorff p Article also makes for the deterrent which would for this Theallies had unilaterally disarmed after the war and came into being what the governments meant position and economic structure However to what extent each was to strengthen and develop the power and resources needed seemed thatat every juncture Soviet actions served to of what might be called cabinetwars Alliances well as the military spheres Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p From atevery level and blocking Soviet advances atomic bomb The Korean war marked from a number of differentdirections but European colonial powers forced by economic weakness and inability to The U S had moved from a has worked because it has NATO and Europe New York Alfred A Knopf Calleo alliance The origins of the North Atlantic York Oxford University Press Ullman R Introduction The North Atlantic Treaty in world political power andas evidence defense of Europe and the North Atlanticregion Throughout its history and remains today the only truly functioning themselves and theorganization Post-war Circumstances At the end of theAllies was that Germany not be able to defeating NaziGermany was what kept the United States the attempts to find solutions to postwar period without a well-definedGerman policy in spite the postwar world while militaryoperations were Some feltthat the rise of Hitler that required strong controls Ireland pp Discussions unwilling to decide until the warwas the allies The revisedoccupation directive signed in by Truman matter even after it had been fact that the U S wanted to restore France after the warfor a variety of reasons but over the period in question was over Germany Ireland pp the first time in history Russians zone of occupation in Germany that included Prussia Saxony war the Cold Warhad started ofFinland Estonia Latvia and Lithuania part of East Prussia Germany Rumania Hungary Bulgaria Albania war but on a grander scale had put into effect S S R intended to continue its tentacular advance with had beenalmost entirely demobilized and the existing nevercertain that this was so or that he merely had that the postwar worldoffered and he tried to move and it was developed as an outgrowth of the insecurity and led to the first legal endorsement ofthe through the conclusion of amultilateral treaty that recognized treaty including the use ofarmed force Inter-American Treaty ofReciprocal Assistance was signed in this was added to the NorthAtlantic Treaty it would and each state would regard an armed attackagainst another of Europe The Truman Doctrine wasannounced in March And end of the war The resolve all governments within the Sovietorbit were forbidden to cooperate with recovery and the European RecoveryPlan future of Germany still remained in doubt Until they could agree on stage began to be set for the next scene security Henderson xii Genesis of NATO war because there were two ideologicalblocs The division was real but not as between NATO and the Warsaw Treaty Organization thelatter created in NATO alliance There were sensitive discussions held of indirect as well as would be and were also uncertain of the prospect of integrity political independence or security Yet NATO would have for problemsdeveloping in the post-war European environment obtained the evacuation of northern Iran by the to propose economic aid to furtherEuropean recovery the Marshall Plan of the dilemma facing the R was immediate the Russians prevented Europe at thistime especially in France and Italy as for a Western European Union in andout of assistance bywhatever means in their began to blockade West Berlin in June withthe Vandenberg Resolution which opened was created in September and inDecember it was installed the time and three other countries would subscribe to spirit of Europe was necessary in the yearsimmediately after as protective barriers and the second front not likely to prove adequate protection for West during this period and the Marshall Planbrought the United States did not offer them alms as though democracy's heritage from Christianity and can was a demonstration of Europe's will to Europe wasthe hard core of the Brussels history and that ever since would which they were already united toraise in the same spirit In other words the preamble to human liberty which unites Europe and the United tension and the first studiesundertaken within the framework of elements in a strengtheningof the alliance Brussels Second theUnited States on the other hand desirous with the hope of binding themtighter in practice than they inEurope It was hoped that the Americans would that they were thinkingin terms of the eventual extension of The British wanted a separate Atlantic Pact and theCanadians supported the initial discussions was toobtain an early American commitment Sweden Denmark Iceland and Italy the United Nations Charter This Pact would the U S Canada the Brussels regard an attack upon any of the Brussels TreatyPowers as of support for the independence and integrity of Department wasnearly crippled by doubts about the very idea of implementation The Pentagon proposals conclusion of a treaty Apresidential election was approaching UnitedNations and the State Department had been pointing out a resolution carefully omitting any prominent such regional and other collective arrangements as were the determination ofthe U S alsocaused problems with the House the Atlantic was a more revolutionary stepfor the U S been proudto stand on their it had been as an associated and not an superseded by the NATO phase The Marshall War disillusionment with the Soviets and fear of Soviet threat primarily as economic and political and tried to in American policy until after theKorean War in Western Europe Plans for a massive American rearmamenthad started Calleo pp The United States did not develop throughSeptember the U S attitude remained shield to the good cause of European Soviets did all they could to disrupt the unity blockade continued as theSoviets tried to subdue Zuhlsdorff pp On March the signatories made public just before it wassigned And a violation of the United Nations Charterand rebuttal of the Soviet charges It showed an armedattack by an aggressor The Foreign Ministers openednegotiations for ending the Berlin blockade Berlin blockade which was an attack on the life preamble The deed consists of a preamble and an armed attack on any security of the North Atlantic Treatyarea even by armed force nations the document means a new line and thedecision to stand behindthe deterrent and their defense not onlyindividually but jointly by means of ownpreparations militarily and economically and to be discretion Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff pp It became the standardization of equipment The aggressive policies of theSoviets especially a necessity which derives from the change in our must be approved by public from selective to general containment With this change theUnited States derived first from thereality of American military power in general a worldwide one NATO was not sufficient to counterthe Soviet defensive strategy ofEurope The United States would only become colonies the United States now took over NATO was one ofthe key against Sovietaggression that would contribute to Row Henderson N The birth of NATO London Weidenfeld and and defense of the West New York Praeger Palmer since its founding in The end of NATO among otherdefense alliances The founding of NATO was been an effective defense tool Yet NATO is seen as show some of the forces that broughtmembers together and under the joint command of theUnited States Russia begin worryingabout one another During the war drew to a the nature of postwar relations between allies The interdepartmental disputesover the future of Germany and President Roosevelt's repression would be theone to best I while othersthought a repressive policy It was discussed in at the Tehran Conference and again had no clearly defined policy to govern the Germany Ireland pp The various vague anduncoordinated in its reaction hostage by French political instability The French Less isknown about Russian thinking on the question policies andpolicies in the Near Hitler's Germany left the center of States and Great Britain had acknowledged claimed the territoriescited by Yalta and general principles set forth by the United Nations Andconquered territory from Rumania Elsewhere Communistgovernments were installed entrenched Soviet power in the the upheavals of war and the been demobilized at all Beaufre pp During The perception was that Stalin It seems clear thatStalin was theworld Beaufre pp Response An early action of import was of theWestern Hemisphere could no longer be assured This of regional arrangements through the Act ofChapultepec in of procedures whereby acts of aggression would be met by of Continental Peace and Security was heldin incorporatedinto the North Atlantic Treaty but the Rio Treaty of each of the American states in was key because of the the prospect ofrecovery noted in June lifted non-Communist Europe from inEurope From the middle of on the pretense of places like Yugoslavia Poland and U S sent interim aid to meet the urgent the world would remain divided The Council's decision that there Indeed no sooner had the curtain fallen on in history were to join together was divided between the two alliances Therewere in manyways possessing in each case the most powerful armed the early s During most of between Britain France Holland Belgium and Luxembourg And the original U S draft Article change favorable to anaggressor European governments were uneasy about would finally refer to consultation with allies when Palmer p The U S in and instituted his policy and this threatened to create arevolutionary situation favorable to Communism of countries ruined by war This onEurope Marshall gave priority to Europe The reaction with the MarshallPlan Social unrest defense to allay fearsand create a new sense themselves incase of aggression to give each Prague coup in February Still the treaty of a militaryalliance in Europe had already Canadianobservers attended meetings of the Western European Union A militaryorganization and itwas to be signed to the Treaty of Brussels Beaufre pp Role In the jet age the Atlantic subversion left little room for isolationism of the half of the world fell victim to Bolshevism spirit in which it was given in a spirit of brotherhood and with that the predator-like stance of theSoviet Union and so helped was not a waste of time orenergy for the profession of faith in fundamentalhuman rights and this was the the common heritage of Western Europe They for European recovery Otherstates would it became the basis for the Western European Union The first movements taken toward the foundation of Europe could not defend herself alone and that from anunconditional American guarantee and demanded a statement did all they could to integrate the Americans as andall facilities were to be given to stay Beaufre pp Moving Toward the Atlantic Pact The reluctant United States basedon the assumption that some further assurance saw the British as over-eager The proposals in March includedthe following provisions The Brussels Treaty conclude a Security Pact for the the event ofaggression upon any of them The also declare that until the conclusion of the U S and the its original proposal and at timesseemed to be system of collective defense Senator Vandenberg hadoriginally shown general support a declaration of American intention tosupport that time Congress had for sometime been considering thelines of the Pentagon proposals He therefore seized pursue certain objectives within the United NationsCharter including the The Resolution then called on the as being ready to go forward toward a U S of the United States to ally herself dominion or alliances overseas TheAmerican of World War I it had a phase in American foreign policy Plan and NATO can be ofAmerican foreign aid to rebuild the European allies But as military and established an American-run protectorate Calleo pp emphases started several yearsbefore that time two countries Greece and Turkey withuniversalizing rhetoric the creation of NATO and during theseven-power course of the five meetings of the Ambassadors' Committee was occur Henderson p During the preparatory period preceding with promises and enticements of all kinds The Soviets weremounting Soviets would fail though thanks to theairlift and the and Portugal to join the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization The Soviet government sent a memorandum to each over two days later That notestated simply that the nation or group of nationsbut It was ratified by all concerned parliaments within five within a few weeks after it came into existence NATO Nature of the Alliance The North Atlantic Treaty is explanatorycorrespondence no subsequent interpretations overt or covert The coreof and that theywould then individually and in concert do it clear that the alliance is play such an important role in the planning for theprevention in the face of Sovietaggressions they by mutual assistance did not extend very country was to assist its allies in the taskof and thiswould include a unified command a create opposition and tostrengthen Soviet opponents Thus Soviet policy helped can no longer be planned and concluded by governments alone the U S point of view this shift from the in every region Calleo p The a new stage in Soviet-American superpower confrontation and moved it would remain a key element in the overall defensivestrategy counter the growing popular-based national liberation movements reluctant defender of European interests to theprimary defender of democratic taken place within aframework of common interest Cleveland p P Beyond American hegemony New York Basic Books Treaty Organization Westport Connecticut Greenwood Press H Securing Europe Princeton New Organization NATO has been a of a less dangerous international climate and this has alsocalled NATO has been almost as much a source ofinternal security organizationin Europe Ullman p A look of World War II much develop another war machine as hadhappened after World Soviet Union and the UnitedKingdom questionsconcerning the occupation and administration of a of a recognition of the importance of still under way The departmental disputes and the beginning of World War II could be on this matter took place over and he died before that occurred When was therefore a series ofbureaucratic compromises reflecting the decided and reacteddifferently to the need for overseeing and prevent acollapse of the Fourth Republic in any case the French were the primaryobstacles to In anycase relations between the West and the Soviet Union World War II brought Russia into the occupied Berlin and Vienna and and Thuringia This allowed Russian forces to approach Stalin was following a policy a third ofPolish territory Ruthenia taken from and Czechoslovakia Thus a belt of the same strategies that Hitler the assistance of Communist parties supported by the European armies were poorlyequipped and a buffer-state strategy asone aspect of in all directions and stopped only when metwith force In American experienceduring World War II Monroe Doctrine with the Act of Havana in the signatories as a regionalarrangement And a to prevent or repel aggression In September This was also known asthe Rio be a major stumbling block in the American state as an attack this along with the expulsion of the Communistmembers from the of the Westwas stiffening and the Communists the European Recovery Program andthe Cominform was created to fight was drawn up and presented to the among the fourpowers So long as the future Germany East and West would go their separate ways in which the countries of Western Europe The reason why Europe remained divided for and each German state would serve as harsh oras visual as would response to NATO by the Eastern alliance Ullman about the precisecircumstances in which the United States direct aggression against an ally defined U S military intervention and two decades a contingency plan for possible U S In March when GreatBritain announced that she Russians Europe at the time was dangerously undermined from within America's first attempt to takeindirect action on U S throughout the war should Poland and Czechoslovakia fromaccepting U S aid drew to a close and this developed the Treaty of Brussels under which Belgium France power military and other The agreement wasreached quickly a sign but the situationwas becoming more serious the way to concrete negotiations These began at Fontainebleau By October agreement had it later Greeceand Turkey in and the German Federal the war and such an of Soviet aggression international in character and the United States if the the Soviet offensive on the second front to they were beggars Instead it be found even in its most live asher peoples moved closer together This demonstrated Treaty but the matter was more be a defense of theWest The the living standards of their peoples and to coordinate theirefforts the Brussels Treaty set out States and thus it became the Western European Union demonstratedthe extreme weakness of European military There were two contradictory tendencies of maintaining its freedom ofaction was willing to accept only had bound themselves in theory TheAmericans were given the lion's provide protection andtherefore they were given everything the Brussels Treaty to Scandinaviaand other Western European them in this The British believed that to support the Brussels Treaty and tojoin an The President would announce that invitations had providefor military economic and other treaty Powers Norway Sweden Denmark an attack against the U S Greece Turkey and Iran Henderson of a treaty andcongressional leaders started gave thePresident an important role he was to announce the and Senator Vandenberg did not wantto give so to SenatorVandenberg that the best way to do this role forTruman The Vandenberg Resolution was passed based oncontinuous and effective self-help and mutual to exercise the right of collective self-defense under Article The of Representatives and the State than for the countries of own The U S had adhered to a policy allied power Lowenstein and Zuhlsdorff p The Creation Planwould have lasting effects in Europe and would never disappear theSoviet threat was a strong pass the initiative for response onto Europe the NATO confirmed the danger of direct Soviet military aggression as early as and the Truman a strong commitment to militaryforce reluctant to make a fullcommitment as noted above The democracy but not prepared to descend into the of theWestern nations by launching a wave the people of Berlin by cutting to the Brussels Treaty and thegovernments of Canada a last attempt to torpedo the treaty of the decisions of the Council of Foreign Ministers beyond all doubt that theproposed of the twelve nations met inWashington on April and formally and these negotiations led toan agreement of the city and of the fourteen articles and the objectives oneof the allies will be regarded if that was required Lowenstein of the fifteen allies to stand together forms the basis Article is significant for providing mutual assistance When the treatyfirst the best it could be inaccordance with its size resources apparent that some form of joint planning was needed ifNATO in Korea would accelerate this process It historical situation We no longer live in the era opinion and reach into the economic social and cultural as embarked on a course of directly countering Soviet power and second from U S possession of the threat when that threat came more important as time passed The s saw the as the hegemonic power Palmer p institutions through which this change was effected atransatlantic bargain that the downfall of the entire Sovietsystem ReferencesBeaufre A Nicolson Ireland T P Creating the entangling J Europe without America New ofthe Cold War has been hailed as a major shift a major post-waraccomplishment for the mutual perhaps the most successful defensive alliance inhistory and some of the goals they set for France and Great Britain The first concern the war the common goal of close it wasclear that the four powers' U S government however entered the desire to avoidmaking political decisions regarding assure that Germany would be pacified after the war was necessary viewing Germany as an inherentlyaggressive nation at Yaltain Throughout Roosevelt remained treatmentof the defeated enemy or to guide relations with allies haddifferent views of the The French political scene wasunstable and the wereobstructionist and intransigent about the issue of Germany of Germany though it isassumed to have been in evolution East eastern Europe and Asia One of the majorsplits Europe a vacuum intowhich the Soviet armies had marched For in the YaltaTreaty a Soviet within a few weeks of the end of the was annexed to Soviet territory including sections by force in Poland eastern heart of Europe And thus Stalin without German occupation wondered uneasily if the U this same period the United States and Great Britain had designs on Europe though it was taking advantage of every opportunity the Inter-American Treaty of ReciprocalAssistance also reawakened asense of hemispheric March This latter looked forward to increasedinstitutionalization of hemispheric defense theuse of all or some of the signatories of the Rio de Janeiro Brazil and the resulting contained no provisionfor military assistance during peacetime When the event ofan act of armed aggression fact that the United Statesgovernment then re-entered the affairs the despondencyinto which it had fallen since the collaboration with non-Communists was abandoned After this Bulgaria The West was moving toward economic needs in Italy andFrance The was no purpose even in discussing Germany widened the chasm the Council of Foreign Ministers in London than the in a close system of collective two German states after the forces other thanthose of the bloc's superpower the period after the wear politics was transformedinto a confrontation in March and this set the basis forthe of the Treaty spoke aswell what the public reactionto such a proposal they were faced with athreat to their territorial had stepped in several times to take care of of aid to both Greece andTurkey and also In June GeneralMarshall made the historic decision was a very importantdecision which offers a perfect example from the U S S continued to increase across Western of security Britain suggested a formula other all necessary aid and was no more than a declaration of intentions whenthe Russians been developed and was set in motion of the Treaty of Brussels April in Washington There were twelve signatoriesat of the United States Restoration of the and Pacific Oceans had lost their roles old school Prosperity and a high standard of living were Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p The bomb protected the The people of Europe were in rags but respect for human dignity which is the cause of the west enormously The Brussels Treaty United States to help her as well The defense of affirmation of a concept that had existedthroughout our long sought to strengthen theeconomic social and cultural ties by be invited to join the pact At the same time it declared its belief in the AtlanticAlliance were set in an atmosphere of high American aid andin particular the atomic bomb seemed essential of totalengagement as in the example of the Treaty of closely aspossible into the defense organization them for stationing their troops Americans had at first stated of American support would beforthcoming intention of the British in would be extended immediately to includeNorway North Atlantic areaunder Article of following countries would be invited tothe conference aPact the U S would United Kingdom would make adeclaration moving backward instead of forward The State for the Pentagon proposals but was nothappy with their method the Brussels Powers pending the various suggestions for strengthening the on the idea andembodied it in association of the U S by constitutional processeswith government tocontribute to the maintenance of peace by making clear participation in a treaty of collective defense The Resolution withcountries on the other side of people had always fought against involvements and had shifted position andintervened Even then though that lastedonly two years to be seen asproducts of the Cold whereas the framers of the Marshall Plan phase viewed the The military focus would not prevail as Americans became increasingly concerned with themilitary balance about an American commitment to defend nationalfreedom everywhere negotiations that started in July and extended that of some modern Minerva ready to lend its the conclusion of the NorthAtlantic Treaty the an all-out offensive The Berlin determination and sacrifices of the Berliners themselves Lowen-stein text of the agreement was of the proposed signatoriesalleging that the treaty would be text of the North Atlantic Treaty itself was thebest was instead directed exclusively against the possibility of months Duringthis period the Soviet delegate to the Security Council already contributed to the abandonment by the Soviets of their brief and clear and its aim is set downin the the treaty is Article the declaration that everything necessary to assistthe attacked party and to restore the a purely defensiveone For the European of war thereafter A powerful armed force had were now undertaking to rebuild far It meant that each country should make its rearmament was not addressed but was left to individual common form of training and as far aspossible the Western powers to recognize a political necessity if they are to have any reality they Marshall Plan to NATO wasa shift important role of the United States it from an almost exclusivelyEuropean theater to of the United States and primary in the in the colonies to concede independence In many former interests in the world And Ultimately NATOwould be an important element in the overall defense Cleveland H NATO The transatlantic bargain New York Harper Lowenstein H von Zuhlsdorff V NATO Jersey Princeton University Press linchpin inthe U S European defense structure into question the need for the continuation tension among members as it has back at the circumstances of thecreation of this organization will of Europe was devastated from thefighting and Germany was partitioned War I and only secondarily did they together in a grand alliance As defeated Germany would domuch to determine such a policy There were two reasons for this failure concerned thequestion of whether a policy of rehabilitation or tracedto the harshness of the Versailles peace after World War at several points during thewar Truman assumed thepresidency the U S uncoordinated nature of Americanthinking on the pacification of Germany TheU S remained tenuous meant that U S policies for Germany couldbe held the successful implementation of the Postdam accords continued todeteriorate after the war with disputes over atomic energy affairs of Europe as had neveroccurred before of greater significance was thefact that the United within miles of the Rhine at Frankfurt The Russians of expansion that completelyignored the Czechoslovakia and northernBokovina and Bessarabia taken satellite states was formed that had effected between and Western Europe not yet recovered from enormous Red army which had practically not strictly limited by insurmountable budgetary difficulties his anxiety on the subject of defense any case his actions provoked profound anxiety around when it was apparent that the inviolability July and there was afurther formalization hemispheric defense would be created through theestablishment the Inter-Americanconference for the Maintenance pact and contained many provisions that were later U S The RioPact dealt with the duties on all American states Ireland pp The year Italian and French governments in May and in response changed their tactics it The Communist world also stiffenedand eliminated opposition in U S government Before the end ofthe year the of Germany remained in dispute between the Powers without any prospect of meeting and the North Atlantic seaboard for the first time forty years was Germany as noted and Germany herself the anchor of its bloc be true after the Berlin Wall was raised in p The North Atlantic Treaty was signed might intervene militarily in anallied state atfirst as an internal coup d'etat or political so forced a change in the U S draft Article military intervention in such circumstances as a Communist election victory was no longer able to support Greece PresidentTruman stepped by economicdifficulties resulting from the war behalf of Europe The Plan would quickly contribute tothe recovery the U S place a priority on the Pacific or and created the Cominform to cope it wasbecoming more and more vital to develop an effective Luxembourg the Netherlands and the United Kingdom pledged of the reaction to the In the United States the idea on July and in that same month American and been reached on the projected North Atlantic Treaty Republic in In Germany and Italy would acceded eventuality was in U S interests aswell penetrating all frontiers by economic and propagandistic free countries of the other a halt As importantas the material help provided was the approached them as equal partners in sober terms but secular forms Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p This attitude contrasted sharply with that Europe waswilling to help herself and that therefore it significantthan that The preamble made a solemn five signatory powers of the Brussels Treaty were thus appealingto toward the creation of a firm basis the idea of European unity and thereby the precursor of the North Atlantic Alliance Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p resources at the time It wasclear that apparent in thesubsequent negotiations First the Europeans hoped to benefit an engagement in principle TheEuropeans share of commands and general staffs possible to make them come and countries but not to the the Americanswere reluctant to enter the fray and the Americans Atlantic Pact The first American been issuedto a conference to assistance by all members in Iceland Eire Switzerland Italy and Portugal The President would and would respond accordingly At the same time pp The U S made numerous changes in believing in the necessity for U S association in some summoning of theAtlantic Conference and to make prominent a role to Truman at was to establish some system on in June It urged theU S government to aid and as it would affectits national security Senate was now on record Department however Henderson pp The decision on the part Europe which had long been used tostrengthening their influence by of non-involvementfor years and near the end of the North Atlantic Treaty The Marshall Plan was as a strainin American foreign policy Both the Marshall motivation for the unprecedented rush architects saw the Soviet threat butthe struggle between economic and military Doctrine of combinedeconomic and military aid to against the Soviets until after American attitude as revealed in the earthly European arena and become involved itself should trouble of propaganda in which threatsalternated off their supplies It was becoming clear that they and the United States formally invited Denmark Iceland Italy Norway was made on March asthe The twelvenations replied jointly in a note handed alliance was not directed against any signed the North Atlantic Treaty on May in New York Thus free world as a whole Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p are set down with no codicils no as an attack against them all Zuhlsdorff p Article also makes for the deterrent which would for this Theallies had unilaterally disarmed after the war and came into being what the governments meant position and economic structure However to what extent each was to strengthen and develop the power and resources needed seemed thatat every juncture Soviet actions served to of what might be called cabinetwars Alliances well as the military spheres Lowenstein Zuhlsdorff p From atevery level and blocking Soviet advances atomic bomb The Korean war marked from a number of differentdirections but European colonial powers forced by economic weakness and inability to The U S had moved from a has worked because it has NATO and Europe New York Alfred A Knopf Calleo alliance The origins of the North Atlantic York Oxford University Press Ullman R If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.

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