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The importance of NATO (1949) for the development of the Cold War

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States , Canada , and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union . NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere .

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