Which statement best describes a major reason why western european countries joined nato after world war 2

 The Soviet Union had shown that it wanted to expand its area of control in Eastern Europe.

Additional detail regarding NATO:

The United States, along with Canada, joined with ten European countries in signing the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.  This created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was a defensive military alliance of democratic states over against the expanding threat of communism felt in the Cold War environment.

The ten original Western European members of NATO were the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Italy, Iceland, and Luxembourg.

the united states didn't wanted to get involve with other countries probelms

answer: andrew johnson

17th u.s. president

in what way were president abraham lincoln's and president andrew johnson's reconstruction plans similar? a)both reserved seats in the congress for former confederate war leaders. b)both granted voting rights to the newly freed slaves. d) both required southerners to support the thirteenth amendment to abolish

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