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French NATO withdrawal
junshan02 发表于 2012/7/24 11:37:00 |
As a result of the , combined with the growing influence of Third World alignments such as the (OPEC) and the , less-powerful countries had more room to assert their independence and often showed themselves resistant to pressure from either superpower. Meanwhile, Moscow was forced to turn its attention inward to deal with the Soviet Union's deep-seated domestic economic problems. During this period, Soviet leaders such as and embraced the notion of Cheap Moncler.The unity of NATO was breached early in its history, with a crisis occurring during 's presidency of France from 1958 onwards. De Gaulle protested at the United States' strong role in the organization and what he perceived as a between the United States and the United Kingdom. In a memorandum sent to President and Prime Minister on September 17, 1958, he argued for the creation of a tripartite directorate that would put France on an equal footing with the United States and the United Kingdom, and also for the expansion of NATO's coverage to include geographical areas of interest to France, most notably , where France was waging a counter-insurgency and sought NATO assistance.
Considering the response given to be unsatisfactory, de Gaulle began the development of an and in 1966 withdrew from NATO's military structures and expelled NATO troops from French soil.Czechoslovakia invasion In 1968, a period of political liberalization in called the took place that included "" of liberalizations, which described increasing , freedom of speech and freedom of movement, along with an economic emphasis on , the possibility of a multiparty government, limiting the power of the secret police and potentially withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact.In answer to the Prague Spring, the , together with most of their Warsaw Pact allies, . The invasion was followed by a wave of emigration, including an estimated 70,000 Czechs and Slovaks initially fleeing, with the total eventually reaching 300,000. The invasion sparked intense protests from Yugoslavia, Romania and China, and from Western European communist parties. |
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