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What is the primary purpose of NATO?
Which of the following countries was NOT a member of the Soviet Union?
What is the main ideological base of the Soviet Union's government and economy?
How many member states are in NATO?
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What is the primary purpose of the United Nations?
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Which of the following countries is a member of both NATO and the Soviet Union?
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When was the Soviet Union established?
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What is the largest and most populous republic of the Soviet Union?
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Study Notes
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- An intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states (30 European and 2 North American)
- Established in the aftermath of World War II as a collective security system
- Member states agree to defend each other against attacks by third parties
- Served as a check on the threat posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
- Remained in place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union
NATO Member States
- Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Albania, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland, Sweden, United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United Kingdom
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
- A transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
- Successor state to the Russian Empire
- Nominally organized as a federal union of 15 national republics
- Highly centralized government and economy with communism and socialism as its ideological base
USSR Member States
- Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan
United Nations (UN)
- A diplomatic and political international organization
- Established after World War II to prevent future world wars
- Stated purposes: maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations
- Mission complicated in its early decades due to Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union
- Provided primarily unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops for monitoring, reporting, and confidence-building roles
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Learn about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its history, and its role as a collective security system. Discover how NATO operated during the Cold War and its continued presence after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
