Let's look at a map and see the evolution of NATO from its creation until today
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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
