Please help me.. what is NATO?

Question

Please help me.. what is NATO?

Answer 1

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation!

Answer 2

It stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

this is their website, and will explain more about it:

http://www.nato.int/ (there's a "what is NATO" link on the left hand side of the page that will tell you more)

Answer 3

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

Answer 4

Other answers explain that it was the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. It was set up when the Communist Soviet Union base in Russia started knocking off the eastern european states, one by one, from 1946 onwards. It was there to protect the free nations of Europe with the backing of the USA. Russia have never forgiven the USA for spoiling its aims and they use still use every opportunity to castigate the USA, some of which appears in the ranting in some of the Yahoo questions.

Answer 5

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Answer 6

It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. In France it is know as OTAN. It is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic treaty on 4th April 1949. It is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the organisation constitutes a system of collective defence whereby it's member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by an external party.

The original members on 4th April 1949 were:

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and United States.

On 18th February 1952 Greece and Turkey joined.

Germany joined on 9th May 1955.

Spain joined on 30th May 1982.

Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined on 12th March 1999.

And on 29th March 2004 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

In all there are 26 members of Nato.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nato

Answer 7

Other correspondents have given a basic idea of what NATO is about. It was formed at the end of the Second World War as a defence treaty to offset the threat of the Soviet Union.

In turn, the Soviets coerced their eastern European satelite states to join the Warsaw Pact.    

Answer 8

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

A military alliance , this is their website

http://www.nato.int/

Answer 9

NATO is the acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  

NATO is a military alliance of 12 countries formed in 4 April 1949. It has grown since  to 26 member states namely:

Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Rep, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey,  United Kingdom, and United States of America

The present  NATO Secretary General is Jaap de Hoop Scheffer of Netherlands.

Its headquarters  is in  Brussels, Belgium

Answer 10

It stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

Basically a huge alliance of allies who support each other in times of war and economic crisis.

Apparently Russia is surrounding by a ring of NATO countries and because of this they fear the worst.

Answer 11

Nato stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

It is a military alliance. In other words, if one member of NATO is attacked, all the other members are obligated to help defend the victim or go on the offense to prevent further aggression (assuming the aggressor and the attacked are not both member states). The original point was to set up a strong  coalition to prevent a third war in europe involving the soviet union.

Answer 12

NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.  It's a military alliance formed between the US, Canada, and several Western European countries after World War 2 to prevent Soviet advances into Western Europe.  The fear was that the Soviet Union would keep advancing westward taking countries as they went, which is what they did as they advanced to Berlin.

NATO has since expanded to include countries not along the North Atlantic.  It is actually expanding eastward, bringing in more countries that are former Soviet Republics, drawing criticism and concern on the part of Russia.