Other titles:35 ANS OTAN (French title) [Alternative Title]
NATO TELEVISION SHORTS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Short documentary, made for NATO's 35th anniversary, giving a brief overview of the history and structure of NATO, of the reasons behind the Atlantic Treaty, and a timeline events during the first thirty five years of NATO.
Description: The film briefly covers such events as the signing of the Treaty and the creation of NATO, the setting up of the OECD and the administering of Marshall Aid, the Berlin Blockade, rearmament, the Schumann Plan and the formation of the EEC, the Korean War, the setting up of SHAPE, unrest in Eastern Europe in the late 1950s, the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting, the Cuban missile crisis, the move to Brussels after France pulled out, the invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Helsinki Agreement, the policy of detente, Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks, the Soviet deployment of the intermediate range nuclear missiles (SS20s) in Eastern Europe and, after the failure of the United States proposed"Zero Option" of removing all intermediate-range nuclear missiles from Europe, of Cruise and Pershing II missiles by NATO, the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, the imposition of martial law in Poland, the establishment of NATO's Airborne early Warning and Control system (AWACS).
Alternative Title:35 ANS OTAN (French title) [Alternative Title]
NATO TELEVISION SHORTS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:NAT 7091
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM NATO
Featured Period:
Production Date:1984
Production Country: NATO
Production Details: North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Sponsor)
