NATO Basics
An Attack on One...
Joining Process
All about the USSR
Modern Controversies
100

This year NATO was founded after World War II

What is 1949?

100

Article 5 states that an attack on one member is considered an attack on this group

What is all NATO members?

100

NATO membership decisions must be approved in this deciding vote 

Unanimously or by consensus

100

Russia invaded this country in 2022, accelerating NATO expansion

What is Ukraine?

100

NATO members have pledged—but often fail—to spend this % of GDP on defense

What is 2%
200

NATO began with this many original member states

What is 12?

200

This country is NATO’s largest contributor and ultimate security guarantor

What is the United States

200

Countries must first submit this formal request to NATO

What is Letter of Intent?

200

Russia fought a short war in 2008 over this country’s separatist regions

What is Georgia?

200

This NATO member delayed Sweden’s accession over PKK-related concerns

What is Turkey?

300

This Cold War rivalry gave NATO its original purpose

What is the Soviet Union or USSR?

300

NATO’s collective defense promise is intended mainly to do this to adversaries

What is deterrence or deter aggression?

300

This 1995 document outlined informal standards for new members

Study on NATO Enlargement?

300

This NATO summit in 2008 promised vague future membership to Ukraine and Georgia

What is the Bucharest Summit?

300

This other country objected to Swedish criticism of its government

What is Hungary?
400

NATO has grown to this many members today

What is 31?

400

Article 5 legally requires members to “assist,” but not necessarily do this

What is to use military force?

400

This NATO program helps prepare countries for eventual membership

What is Membership Action Plan? or MAP!
400

Russia claims NATO expansion threatens it, experts say it justified this action

what is the Invasion of Ukraine?

400

This fear drives opposition to Ukraine’s immediate NATO membership

What is the Russian-Ukraine war?

500

This newest member of NATO is also known as the home for Santa Claus and is considered the happiest country in the world!

What is Finland?

500

Article 5 is part of this founding NATO document

What is the Washington Treaty

500

Even after approval, membership requires this step in every current NATO country

What is national ratification?

500

These two Ukrainian regions were backed by Russia after 2014

What are Donetsk and Luhansk?

500

Ukraine amended its constitution in 2019 to commit to pursuing this goal.

What is NATO membership?