French Membership of NATO

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

This record states: De Gaulle protested against the USA's strong role in the organization and what he perceived as a special relationship between it and the United Kingdom.

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

This record states: Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on 17 September 1958, he argued for the creation of a tripartite directorate that would put France on an equal footing with the US and the UK.

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

This record states: In a memorandum sent to President Dwight D.

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

This record states: NATO's unity was breached early in its history with a crisis occurring during Charles de Gaulle's presidency of France.

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

de Gaulle began constructing an independent defence force for his country. He wanted to give France, in the event of an East German incursion into West Germany, the option of coming to a separate peace with the Eastern bloc instead of being drawn into a larger NATO–Warsaw Pact war. France withdrew its Mediterranean Fleet from NATO command

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

All French armed forces were removed from NATO's integrated military command, and all non-French NATO troops were asked to leave France

Warfare / North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)

France bans the stationing of foreign nuclear weapons on French soil. This caused the United States to transfer two hundred military aircraft out of France and return control of the air force bases that had operated in France since 1950 to the French by 1967