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On April 4, 1949, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the foreign ministers of Canada and 10 Western European nations (Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal) gathered in Washington, DC, to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. This alliance created a military and political complement to the Marshall Plan for European economic recovery by establishing a mutual defense pact against possible aggression from the Soviet Union.

         
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Quelle:
U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/north_atlantic_treaty/