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Understanding NATO: A Quiz on Its Formation and Key Events

Test your knowledge about NATO's formation, key events, and significant figures with this engaging quiz.

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1 When was NATO formed?

2 This action led to ________ protests throughout Western Europe.

3 Where are the headquarters of NATO?

4 [5] Since the ________, NATO has attempted to refocus itself to new challenges and has deployed troops to Afghanistan as well as trainers to Iraq.

5 [26] At the April 2008 summit in Bucharest, Romania, NATO agreed to the accession of Croatia and ________ and invited them to join.

6 What does the following picture show?  Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer meeting George W. Bush on 20 March 2006.   NATO planes engaged in aerial bombardments during Operation Deliberate Force after the Srebrenica massacre.   Individual Partnership Action Plans were launched at the 2002 Summit in Prague.   The 11 September attacks caused NATO to invoke its collective defence article for the first time.

7 Lajes Field, in the Portuguese ________, is an important transatlantic staging post.

8 GLCM ________ and Pershing II theatre nuclear weapons in Europe.

9 Who of the following is/was the leader of NATO?

10 [17] On 7 May 2008, ________ held an interview with Gorbachev in which he repeated his view that such a commitment had been made.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1990, it was revealed that a stay-behind army backed by NATO had been active in Switzerland throughout the Cold War, preparing for a possible Soviet invasion.
  • in 1951, Bulgarian politician and exile G. M. Dimitrov helped found the first Bulgarian NATO company.
  • the cruiseferry M/S Nordlandia (originally M/S Olau Hollandia) was built to be NATO-compatible, so that she could easily be converted to a troopship.
  • the NATO commander in Afghanistan labelled the Siege of Sangin against Taliban insurgents the most intensive engagement involving British soldiers since the Korean War.
  • the fourteen nations designated Major non-NATO ally are the only countries outside of NATO to whom the United States government will consider selling depleted uranium anti-tank rounds.
  • current Chief of National Defense General Staff of Greece, Air Chief Marshal Ioannis Giagkos, served as Commander in NATO Combined Air Operations Centre-7.
  • both the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO and the North American Free Trade Agreement were signed in the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium (pictured) in Washington, D.C..
  • American four-star admiral Lynde D. McCormick became NATO's first Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic despite opposition from British prime minister Winston Churchill.
  • NATO pilots flew more than 100,000 sorties over Bosnia during Operation Deny Flight.
  • Edith S. Sampson (pictured) was the first Black U.S. delegate to the United Nations and NATO.
  • Operation Grand Slam in 1952 was a major naval exercise of the newly formed NATO alliance, with over 200 warships.
  • Albania expects to accede to NATO this April after individual NATO member states ratify its accession protocol.
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