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1/ Day 3 of #NATO7for70 to commemorate 70 years of @NATO!

The third installment is "Adieu: Why France Left"
2/ We often think of “NATO Expansion”. But this was the first case of (partial) contraction.

Specifically, on February 21, 1966, French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from the military component of NATO

iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/196…
3/ To be clear, France was withdrawing from the “O” of NATO (the integrated military command), not from the “North Atlantic Treaty” itself.
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1/ Day 2 of #NATO7for70 to commemorate 70 years of @NATO!

The second installment is "Turkey and Greece: The First Expansion"
2/ Turkey (🇹🇷) & Greece (🇬🇷) joined the alliance in 1952 (with the articles of accession officially signed in October 1951). So NATO's first expansion took place just a little over two years after its founding.

Why these two countries?
3/ When the North Atlantic Treaty was signed in 1949, these were not the immediately obvious countries to be the first new members of NATO.

Ireland (🇮🇪) had been one of the last cuts

(👇 is from the minutes of the March 11, 1949 meeting of the Washington Exploratory Group)
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