Today, I am going to talk about how
does Cold War relate to the NATO.
The formation of NATO in 1949
increased tension between the USA and the USSR.
Especially the US troops stationed in West Germany, that make USSR felt
threated by this.
In September 1952, the first NATO
maritime exercises began. There were 200 ships and over 50000 personnel to
practice the defense. There were lots kinds of exercises, like: Exercise Grand
Slam, Long step, and naval, amphibious exercises in the Mediterranean Sea ect.
So we can see all of the maritime exercises is preparing for any war that is
coming from the Warsaw Pact.
French withdrawal
In 1963, the France Government issued that the fleet in Atlantic was no
more obeyed by the NATO, which means France can do whatever they want in
Atlantic Ocean. Early in 1959, the president of France Charles de Gaulle
claimed that France need hers individual power, and Europe is belong to
European. He said the Western Europe should be a union, but no USA. It seems
like he doesn’t like to be under control by USA or NATO. The France also
developed his own nuclear power. At the same period, France also made up the
relationship between the Eastern Europe, which is the Warsaw Pact and Soviet.
After 1959, the relationship between France and NATO is getting worse. In
1964, the France Government withdrew the entire officials in NATO. In March
1966, the France Government officially claimed quit the NATO; France withdrew
all of the army in NATO, and ban the airspace in France that any planes cannot fly
across; and announce withdrew all of France Army in NATO before July, as well
as the US army withdrew form France area. In July 1st 1966, The
France officially quit the NATO. Therefor, the headquarters moved to the
Brussels. The original headquarter of NATO is in Paris.
I think this kind of movement is all about against to the NATO, but
especially the USA, maybe the France thought the USA is too powerful that is a
time bomb for France. Maybe one day, the USA will try to invade the France,
because the USA was too powerful, nobody could stop them growing, except the
Warsaw Pact, the Soviet may stop them. And I can tell actually the France was
not aim at the NATO, but The USA; the France were saying the Europe should
control by Europeans. So France just doesn’t like the USA to participate the polity
in Europe, they tried to start the revolution, but nobody is following France.