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So the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949,US and twelve Western countries joined

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So the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed in 1949,US and twelve Western countries joined it. It was a security pact, in which the states agreed in case of a military attack to one of more of them to defend each others. The founding members were US,Canada, Britain,Belgium, France,Italy ,Denmark, Luxembourg, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway and Portugal. First NATO General Secretary, Lord Ismay, stated that the organization's aim was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down."
To respond to NATO, in 1955 the Warsaw Pact was established. The pact was a collective defense treaty between the communist states, and as NATO with UN, was the military counterpart to the COMECON. It rappresented a Soviet reaction to …show more content…

The solution of the problem came with the Schuman Plan. Presented in1950 by the French Foreign Minister, It was about sharing European resources in a supranational union. on April 1951 the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was instituted. It combined coal and steel resources of France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands, and it reduced the chance of war betwwen France and West Germany. During the Paris Treaty, the six states stateded that this date symbolized the birth of Europe. The ECSC became reality in 1952, and was the first step in relation to European integration.

After the born of ECSC, others proposals were made to integrate european states. Therefore to better defend the continent from Soviet aggressions, the United States was demanding to re-arm West Germany, but they found a strong opposition from the most of European countries, which were scared of a re-establishment of German army. In these circumstnces the French Prime Minister in 1952, proposed to create an integrated European Army. The result was the European Defence Community, which gathered together the military forces of West Germany, Italy, France and the Benelux cuontries. This option was prefered more than the idea of Germany joining NATO. In 1952, a treaty was signed by ECSC members but in 1954 the French National Assembly rejected it. After this, during the Paris Agreement in 1954 the

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