North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO]

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO](also called the Washington Treaty) of April 4, 1949.

• A political and Military Alliance

• Recently joined Montenegro(2017) and North Macedonia(2020)

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada,(North American) and 28 Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
• It was the US’s first peacetime military alliance outside the western hemisphere.
• HQ: Brussels, Belgium.

Source

• The Indian Express
• NATO