搜尋結果
South East Asia Treaty Organization
- IPA[ˌsouTHˈēst ˈāZHə ˈtrēdē ˌôrɡənəˈzāSHən]
- a defence alliance which existed between 1954 and 1977 for countries of SE Asia and part of the southwestern Pacific, to further a US policy of containing communism. Its members were Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the US.