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1776 – Model Treaty passed by the Continental Congress becomes the template for its future international treaties [6] 1776 – Treaty of Watertown – a military treaty between the newly formed United States and the St. John's and Mi'kmaq First Nations of Nova Scotia, two peoples of the Wabanaki Confederacy.
Map of NATO enlargement (1952–present). The history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) begins in the immediate aftermath of World War II.In 1947, the United Kingdom and France signed the Treaty of Dunkirk and the United States set out the Truman Doctrine, the former to defend against a potential German attack and the latter to counter Soviet expansion.
It is part of the US' collective defense arrangement with Western European powers, following a long and deliberative process. [4] The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against Western Europe in mind, [ 5 ] although the mutual self-defense clause was never invoked during the Cold War .
Hans-Dietrich Genscher and other negotiators during the first round of talks for the Two Plus Four Treaty. Negotiations to reunite East and West Germany took place throughout 1990, resulting in the signing of the Two Plus Four Treaty in September 1990 and East Germany officially joining the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990.
This timeline of United States military ... reached a head in 1898 when Germany, ... or protocol state of the Southeast Asian Collective Defense Treaty ...
Military alliances shortly before World War I. Germany and the Ottoman Empire allied after the outbreak of war.. This is the list of military alliances.A military alliance is a formal agreement between two or more parties concerning national security in which the contracting parties agree to mutually protect and support one another militarily in case of a crisis that has not been identified in ...
Collective security was a key principle underpinning the League of Nations and the United Nations. [1] Collective security is more ambitious than systems of alliance security or collective defense in that it seeks to encompass the totality of states within a region or indeed globally.
A collective defense agreement would protect nations from being defenseless in the face of a Soviet invasion. [28] The initial idea for the organization was suggested in the Vandenburg Resolution. [24] In 1948, the US, the UK, and Canada, began to brainstorm NATO. 12 members signed the treaty in 1949 in Washington, DC, United States. [28]