western bloc in English
group of countries in western Europe and the United States
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1. The Benelux countries were among the organizers of the Western bloc and are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Western European Union, and the European Economic Community
2. The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) was established by Western bloc powers in the first five years after the end of World War II, during the Cold War, to put an arms embargo on Comecon countries.