Cold War treaties

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 87. Chapters: Warsaw Pact, NATO, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Antarctic Treaty System, Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, North Atlantic Treaty, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Environmental Modification Convention, Treaty on Open Skies, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, Stalin Note, Treaty of San Francisco, Sino-British Joint Declaration, ANZUS, List of parties to the Partial Test Ban Treaty, START I, Paris Peace Accords, Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan, Tripartite Accord, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty, Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation, Nassau Agreement, Helsinki Accords, 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement, Biological Weapons Convention, Treaty of Tlatelolco, Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War, Alvor Agreement, Central Treaty Organization, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Sino-Pakistan Agreement, Outer Space Treaty, Nuclear umbrella, Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Test Readiness Program, Moon Treaty, Four Power Agreement on Berlin, Threshold Test Ban Treaty, Seabed Arms Control Treaty, Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, Treaty of Moscow, Five Power Defence Arrangements, Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956, Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Simonstown Agreement, Basic Treaty, 1972, U.S.-Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement, Wanfried agreement, Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, Nkomati Accord, Shanghai Communiqué, Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals, Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations, Nakuru Agreement, Pactomania, Central American Defense Council. Excerpt: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( ; French: ), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defence against a prospective Soviet invasion-doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure from 1966. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization became drawn into the Balkans while building better links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated with several former Warsaw Pact states joining the alliance in 1999 and 2004. On 1 April 2009, membership was enlarged to 28 with the entrance of Albania and Croatia. Since the 11 September attacks, NATO has...