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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.
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]
Invasion of Poland; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Left to right, top to bottom: Luftwaffe bombers over Poland; Schleswig-Holstein attacking the Westerplatte; Danzig Police destroying the Polish border post (re-enactment); German tank and armored car formation; German and Soviet troops shaking hands; bombing of Warsaw.
Polish 120 mm battery during the Battle of Warsaw; Polish–Soviet War, August 1920. When Poland regained independence in 1918, it recreated its military which participated in the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921, and in the two smaller conflicts ( Polish–Ukrainian War (1918–1919) and the Polish–Lithuanian War (1919–1920)).
January – June, 1938 Battle of Lanfeng: Japanese First Army and Chinese First War Area: May 1938 Amoy Operation: Japanese Fifth Fleet and Chinese Amoy Area: May 10–12, 1938 Battle of Wuhan: Chinese and Japanese forces: June 11 – October 27, 1938 Canton Operation: Japanese 21st Army and Chinese 12th Army Group: October – December, 1938
Czechoslovakian campaign (1938–1945) Invasion of Poland (Fall Weiss) (1939) Operation Barbarossa (1941), conducted by Army Group North, Army Group Centre, and Army Group South; Battle of Moscow (1941) Battles of Rzhev (1942–1943) Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943) Battle of the Caucasus (1942–1943) Battle of Kursk (Operation Citadel) (1943)
The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 19] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.