Daily Quiz | On 76 years of NATO

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The construction of the ______ ____ in 1961 tested the strength of the alliance between European countries and the US, especially against an invasion by the Soviet Union. One important outcome was France withdrawing from NATO’s Military Command Structure in 1966. Fill in the blanks.

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One of NATO’s more controversial actions was its bombing of the Federal Republic of X in 1999, with heavy civilian casualties. NATO members disagreed over whether the attack required UN approval, with those against contending that NATO’s potency lies in being able to sidestep Russia’s and China’s approval at the UN Security Council. Name X.

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A specific event in the early 2000s, known popularly as X, caused NATO to invoke Article 5 of its charter for the first and so far the last time in its history. Article 5 defines Y, an important reason for NATO’s existence and which as a concept stipulates that an attack against one NATO country should be construed as an attack against all NATO countries. Name X and Y.

Answer : X = 9/11 attacks; Y = casus foederis

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In 2012, the prime minister of which country considered invoking NATO’s Article 5 owing to spillover of conflict from the Syrian civil war? While he didn’t invoke it in the end, NATO launched and has since maintained Operation Active Fence to protect this country against attacks from within Syria.

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Name the country that, while being a founding member of NATO, disallows permanent peacetime bases and nuclear warheads on its territory. At the same time, it has allowed the US to maintain the latter’s northernmost base of its Armed Forces, in Avannaata municipality.