Channel: Geo History

Category: Education

Description: Let's look at a map and see the evolution of NATO from its creation until today -------- Support the channel on Patreon: patreon.com/geohistory -------- Music: Contact - Causmic (YouTube Library) -------- 4 April 1949: The North Atlantic Treaty, creation of NATO 1952: Greece and Turkey join NATO 1955: West Germany (FRG) joins NATO 1955: Creation of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance of the Eastern Bloc 1966: France withdraws from the integrated military command 1974: Greece withdraws from the integrated military command 1980: Greece fully returns to NATO 1982: Spain joins NATO 1990: German reunification, East Germany enters NATO 1991: End of the Warsaw Pact & Dissolution of the USSR 1999: Poland, Czechia and Hungary join NATO 2004: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania and Bulgaria join NATO 2009: Croatia and Albania join NATO & France fully returns to NATO 2017: Montenegro joins NATO 2020: North Macedonia joins NATO 2022: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ukraine and Georgia have declared their aspirations to join NATO