===Soviet reaction===
The Angelo-American alliance acceptance of continental [[Europe]]an countries led Soviet Russia in 1955 to set up a counter organization, The [[Warsaw Treaty Organization]] (or Warsaw Pact). Common defense, the ongoing MAD strategy, and economic crisis led the [[Soviet Union]] and the Warsaw Pact to its demise. NATO's transatlantic relations were key to the end of the [[Cold War I]]. The interlinking of United States and the [[European Union]], a [[CIA]] project begun after World War II, remains to this day.
==Members as of 2022==
[[File:Nato spending 2021.jpg|right|300px|thumb|NATO spending in 2018.]]
[[Austria]] is a [[Europe]]an country that never joined NATO.<ref>https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ukraine-2022-fatima-austrias-neutrality-prayer-and-fasting/</ref> Under the Austrian State Treaty (May 15, 1955), the [[Soviet Union]] withdrew its troops under the promise that Austria would declare its neutrality and remain a buffer between [[Western Europe]] and [[Eastern Europe]].<ref>https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/lw/107185.htm</ref> This was the only treaty signed by both the Soviet Union and [[United States]] in the entire decade following the 1947 Paris Peace Treaties.
Nearly all of the remainder of [[Western Europe]] has joined NATO, with the additional exceptions (among large countries) of [[Switzerland]], [[Ireland]], [[Sweden]], and [[Finland]], though, following the Russian Federation's Special Operation in Ukraine, the latter two are reconsidering. Ireland belongs to the [[EU Battle group]] and has participated with some NATO led missions under a UN mandate. Support for joining Nato has increased recently in the Republic of Ireland
[[File:Cost per death.png|right|300px|thumb|‘Value for Money’: How to kill 625,000 people for just $0.29 cost per death.]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! NATO Member
! NATO Summit
! Expansion Year
|-
| [[Belgium]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Canada]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Denmark]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[France]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Iceland]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
|-
| [[Italy]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Luxembourg]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
|-
| [[Netherlands]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Norway]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Portugal]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[United Kingdom]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
|-
| [[United States]]
| Founder
| Original Member, 1949
|-
| [[Greece]]
|
| First Round, 1952
|-
|-
| [[Turkey]]
|
| First Round, 1952
|-
| [[Germany]]
|
| Second Round, 1955
|-
|-
| [[Spain]]
|
| Third Round, 1982
|-Bonn,Germany
| [[Czech Republic]]
| [[Washington, D.C.]]
| Fourth Round, 1999
|-
| [[Hungary]]
| [[Washington, D.C.]]
|Fourth Round, 1999
|-
|-
| [[Poland]]
| [[Washington, D.C.]]
| Fourth Round, 1999
|-
| [[Bulgaria]]
| Washington, D.C.
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Estonia]]
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
|Fifth Round, 2004
|-
| [[Latvia]]
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Lithuania]]
| [[Istanbul, Turkey]]
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
| [[Romania]]
| Istanbul, Turkey
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
| [[Slovakia]]
| Istanbul, Turkey
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
| [[Slovenia]]
| Istanbul, Turkey
| Fifth Round, 2004
|-
|-
| [[Albania]]
| [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]
| Sixth Round, 2008
|-
| [[Croatia]]
| [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]
| Sixth Round, 2008
|-
| [[Montenegro]]
|
| Seventh Round, 2017
|-
|}
==References==