The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington

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2. Twelve states signed the treaty while the Berlin airlift was still flying. The text is short and its central Article 5 commits each party to treat an attack on one as an attack on all and to take such action as it deems necessary — a formulation negotiated to satisfy the United States Senate, which would not accept an automatic commitment to war. The integrated military command structure, the supreme commander and the standing forces came later, prompted by the Korean War.
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4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
5. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington
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9. The Fulda Gap
10. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington
11. The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington
12. The Korean War
13. The Warsaw Treaty is signed
14. Exercise Able Archer 83
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16. Supports the signature date and place, the twelve original parties, and the collective-defence formulation of Article 5 as used in this pack. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session — www.nato.int is blocked by the environment's egress proxy and the session's WebSearch budget was exhausted before authoring began. The Article 5 wording referred to here is reproduced from standing knowledge of a very widely quoted text and should be checked against the official version.