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D. Norway is on the western and northern edges of the Scandinavian Peninsula and does not border the Baltic Sea on the east shore of the peninsula. Besides the NATO members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, Denmark, Germany and Poland, the Baltic Sea is bordered by Russia and the neutral nations of Sweden and Finland.
D. Through crusades and wars the Baltic States have fallen to other Northern European forces many times. After declaring independence during World War I, the Baltic States were occupied by the Russian-led Soviet Union during World War II. They regained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved.
D. The September 11 attacks in the United States caused NATO to invoke the common defense Article 5 of the NATO Charter for the first time in the organization's history.
D. Several of today’s NATO nations were once members of the Warsaw Pact alliance as parts of the Soviet Union or the nations it dominated. Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former Soviet spy, has strongly opposed NATO expansion into those areas and said Russia could target NATO sites if it felt threatened.