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European Economic Community (EEC)
The common market established by the Treaty of Rome (1957), signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The EEC created free movement of goods, services, labour, and capital among member states and a common external tariff. It expanded to include Britain, Ireland, and Denmark in 1973, and was transformed into the European Union by the Maastricht Treaty in 1992.
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, a military alliance founded in 1949 by 12 Western states including the USA, UK, France, and Canada. Its founding treaty committed members to collective defence under Article 5: an attack on one member was to be treated as an attack on all. NATO provided the institutional framework for American military commitment to European defence during the Cold War and remained the primary Western security organisation after 1991.