The Western Alliance was formalised into an organisation which came into existence in April 1949. It was an association of twelve states known as :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
The western alliance was formalised into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which came into existence in April 1949. Its twelve states declared that an armed attack on any one of them in Europe or North America would be regarded as an attack on all of them.
Note: This question is taken from the chapter ‘The Cold War Era’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “The Emergence of Two Power Blocs … The western alliance was formalised into an organisation, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which came into existence in April 1949. It was an association of twelve states which declared that armed attack on any one of them in Europe or North America would be regarded as an attack on all of them. Each of these states would be obliged to help the other.…” |