Members
- Albania
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Croatia
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Montenegro
- Netherlands
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States
- West Germany (1955-1990)
- West Germany joined NATO on May 9th, 1955, ten years after the collapse of Nazi Germany.(Spokesman-Review, p. 2) (The Central Queensland Herald) (NATO)
- West Germany would combine with East Germany in 1990, causing them to indirectly leave NATO, but still be in it as the new unified Germany.(NATO)
NATO was Initially created in 1949 to combat the Soviet Union.(NATO) Some of its current members didn’t exist, such as West Germany, or were formally apart of the Warsaw Pact or the Soviet Union, such as Poland and Latvia, with most joining NATO after 1989.source needed