The Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'. Although this rather cute title sounds more like the agreement which you and your friend have about sending cards to each other on Valentine's Day, it was actually a military treaty, which bound its signatories to come to the aid of the others, should any one of them be the victim of foreign aggression.

Nominally the Warsaw Pact was a response to a similar treaty made by the Western Allies in 1949 (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, or NATO) as well as the re-militarization of West Germany in 1954, both of which posed a potential threat to the Eastern countries. Although it was stressed by all that the Warsaw Treaty was based on total equality of each nation and mutual non-interference in one another's internal affairs, the Pact quickly became a powerful political tool for the Soviet Union to hold sway over its allies and harness the powers of their combined military. When Hungary tried to extricate themselves from the agreement in 1956, Soviet forces moved to crush the uprising; and, in 1968, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia (with support from five other Pact members), after the Czech government began to exhibit 'Imperialistic' tendencies.

Following the diminishing power of the USSR in the 1980s and the eventual fall of Communism the treaty became redundant. The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved in Prague in 1991, after successive governments withdrew their support of the treaty.


* This article on the Warsaw Pact is meant to be an informative introduction to Warsaw's history for travellers, and is not meant to be used for academic research. Please do not use it for any academic papers, but instead refer to published academic works and textbooks. *

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reviewed by Meg from Australia on Mar.06.2011

Dillon-

Warsaw Pact does not exist nor does USSR. Furthermore, there was a unification of the East and West Germany.
The nations that Warsaw Pact has been constituted of are presently part of NATO.

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Yes it was a very wise move by USSR...But ignored the USA policy towards USSR..which in fact was involved in splitting of USSR.Still being dominant in world politics..USA`s next move will be splitting China into pieces. So in India dealt with..Thanks and Good writing..Bye

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Thank you for breaking this down in simple where professors talk about but didn't define the terms. I, definitely, will not use it for my exam, but it's nice to understand a topic when people mention it. Thanks, Sheridan

reviewed by Sheridan from United States on Dec.09.2010

alot of you are confused what warsaw pact was. it waz the alliance of those who were communists, and nato is those who are democracy, even today nato exist and i believe since nato still exist today so does warsaw pact, its obvious that russia is not happy about loseing to us during the cold war. russia is not your friend. they support any communist country such as china and north korea. those are the countries we have to worry about, atleast thats what i think.

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warsaw pact assumed immense in the history of europe.it solve the problems of european states wich were bleeding wounds of batic states.it transfom war into friendship.and assumed trade among anguish states of europe.

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this article was quite helpful. it seems to me that, as stated, this pact was a retaliation to the unification of western eruope. i also feel that the soviet union just wanted to ensure that eastern europe and other communist nations were supporting him and there was no chance of russia surrendering to an act of agression from the west, due to the support of the east.

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very easy to understand for the basic theme of the pact. Well done

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bueno yo creo que ya no sirve de nada saver esto porque en un tiempo mas estaremos muertos por el calentamiento global y es encerio porque unos cientificos dijieron que la zona de magnetismo de la tierra esta devilitandose y la explosiones que tiene el sol las moleculas que salen de las explociones llegan a la tierra y son atraidas por el centro del magnetismo... si no se han dado cuenta vean al cielo los dias que no este nublado el cielo azulado esta mas brillante esa es una reaccion por ls explociones asi que creo que ahora ahy que saver como arreglarnos como para sobrevivir por la culpa de todas las empresas petroleras y nosinteticas. ... como por la satisfaccion de un poco de personas pueden acabar tantas cosas lamentable... aah me llamo gonzalo y tengo 14 aƱos y vivo en santiago.

reviewed by gonzalo valenzuela from Chile on Aug.04.2010