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1951 NATO accepts Greece
and Turkey
as members
1954 West Germany
joins NATO
1955 West Germany joins NATO.
1960 December 16 — U.S.
Secretary of State Christian Herter announces that the United States will commit 5 atomic submarines and 80 Polaris missiles to NATO by the end of 1963.
1961 Following a four-day conference in Casablanca
, five African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves Morocco
, the United Arab Republic
, Ghana
, Guinea
, and Mali
.
1962 ''Der Spiegel
'' publishes an article on a NATO exercise criticizing the weakness of the West German
army (the offices of the paper are occupied by the police on the 16th).
1966 Charles De Gaulle
asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France
.
1966 French President Charles De Gaulle
states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year.
1966 France
formally leaves NATO.
1966 NATO decides to move SHAPE headquarters to Belgium
.
1966 NATO moves its HQ from Paris
to Brussels
.
1971 Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary General.
1982 Spain
becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
1989 NATO debates modernising short range missiles; although the U.S.
and UK
are in favour, West German chancellor Helmut Kohl
obtains a concession deferring a decision.
1995 United States Air Force
Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone. O'Grady survives on bugs and grass until he is rescued.
1995 The NATO bombing campaign against Serb artillery positions begins in Bosnia
- continues into October. At same time ARBiH forces begin offensive against Serb Army around Sarajevo
, central Bosnia
and Bosnian Krajina.
1995 NATO air strikes continue, after repeated attempts at a solution with the Serbs
fail.
1995 Javier Solana becomes the new NATO General Secretary.
1997 NATO invites the Czech Republic
, Hungary
, and Poland
to join the alliance in 1999.
1999 Hungary
, Poland
and the Czech Republic
join NATO.
1999 NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
, which refused to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO attacked a sovereign country.
1999 Kosovo War
: In the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
, three Chinese
embassy workers are killed and 20 wounded, when a NATO aircraft mistakenly bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
.
1999 Kosovo War
: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
and NATO sign a peace treaty
.
1999 Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic
agrees to withdraw Serbia
n forces from Kosovo
.
1999 Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins - NATO-led United Nations
peacekeeping forces KFOR enter the province of Kosovo
in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
.
2002 NATO Summit in Prague
: Bulgaria
, Estonia
, Latvia
, Lithuania
, Romania
, Slovakia
and Slovenia
are invited to join NATO.
2003 NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.
2004 The largest expansion of NATO to date takes place, allowing Bulgaria
, Estonia
, Latvia
, Lithuania
, Romania
, Slovakia
and Slovenia
into the organization.
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