North America 1949: North Atlantic Treaty
4 April 1949
4 Apr 1949
North Atlantic Treaty
8 Mar 1941 Lend-Lease
7 Dec 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor
14 Feb 1944 America in World War II
14 Aug 1945 Victory in World War II
4 Apr 1949 North Atlantic Treaty
1 Jan 1959 Cuban Revolution
24 Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
26 May 1966 Operation Power Pack
9 Aug 1974 Counterculture Revolution
27 Oct 1979 Decolonization in the Caribbean
26 Oct 1983 Central American Crisis
22 Dec 1989 End of the Cold War
15 Oct 1994 New World Order
11 Sep 2001 September 11 attacks
26 Nov 2014 Mexican Drug War
6 Jan 2021 Storming of the US Capitol
15 Jan 2024 North America Today
World War II left the United States and the Soviet Union as the dominant powers in Europe. Relations between the two began to deteriorate almost immediately, especially after US concerns over the Soviet installment of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe prompted President Truman to embark on a policy of "containment" by aiding the non-Communist regimes which surrounded the Soviet bloc. As this new "Cold War" heated up, the US and its European allies signed the North Atlantic Treaty, formally creating the NATO alliance to counter any potential Soviet attack.
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