Following World War II, the organization known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed because

After World War II, the United States, Canada, and Western European countries formed NATO as a collective-defense alliance. Its members pledged to support one another if attacked, presenting a united front against the threat of Soviet expansion and Communism. The alliance was meant to deter aggression, not to prepare Western Europe to attack the USSR.

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