The escalation of Soviet threats against the West had already accelerated the US movement towards military involvement with Europe. The key concept was embodied in the concept of containment. “This change did not mean the acceptance of binding agreements with European nations. This meant that the United States was ready to realize that the survival of Western democracies, threatened by communist internal aggression or subversion, was essential to the security of the United States itself. 11 hence the original change. The Truman[A] dinemissive relied on the advice of George F. Kennan, a Soviet specialist in Moscow, whose revolutionary “long telegram” of 1946 outlined a way to deal with the threat to set the direction for this policy. 12 of us. “As a scholarly student and perceptive of communism, Kennan thesis that only a solid limitation could control the dynamic ideology of the Soviet system. Conventional diplomacy was not relevant to relations between the two nations. It was the UN. 13 D. This extensive negotiation culminated in the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949. In this agreement, the United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the United Kingdom agreed to consider an attack on an attack on all, as well as consultations on threats and defence issues.
This collective defence agreement formally applied only to attacks on signatories that took place in Europe or North America; Conflicts in colonial zones have not been locked up. After the treaty was signed, some signatories submitted requests for military aid to the United States. Later in 1949, President Truman proposed a military aid program, and the Mutual Defense Assistance Program adopted the United States. The October Congress did not allocat about $1.4 billion to build defense facilities in Western Europe. 128Escott Reid, Time of Fear and Hope: The Birth of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949, 90 (1977). The “end product of lengthy discussions in April 1948 was the Vandenberg Resolution,” which asserted that U.S. association with regional individual and collective defense agreements would not bypass Congress or the United Communities if war broke out in Europe. 126 d. 96-97; See Vandenberg Resolution, res.
239, 80th Cong. (1948). “There was no call for an alliance, but a cowardly construction of [R]esolution paved the way for such an outcome… » 127Kaplan, a.o.o. Note 2, at 96 (modification of original). The resolution passed the United States Senate on June 11, 1948 by a vote of 64 to 4. 128Escott Reid, Time of Fear and Hope: The Birth of the North Atlantic Treaty, 1947-1949, 90 (1977). This action was not quite the acceptance of an alliance, but it could just as well have made this announcement, being followed by an agreement by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to start exploratory discussions with the Brussels Pact countries. 129The mastny, a.o.a.
Note 14, at 8. The Vandenberg resolution released the brakes that the Foreign Ministry tried to expose to the movement towards a entangled alliance. 130Eident. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established in 1949 by the United States, Canada and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, the challenges are enormous, if not at the level of 1949. The democratic framework that has supported NATO over the years has been shattered by the resurgence of nationalism within Alliance member states, which could potentially destroy the alliance. 162Identification id at 237-38. Wars in the Middle East weighed on the social fabric of many Allies and the Russian threat to the Baltic states revived fears of the Soviet years.