The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense treaty between the eight communist states in Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold
War. Its main goal was to protect communism from western democracies by aiding any communist state that was attacked. It is essentially the opposing force to NATO. Its original members were Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Albania.
The Soviet Union mainly created the Warsaw Pact as a buffer zone to protect themselves from a western invasion, especially one
similar to Hitler’s invasion of Russia during the second World War. The Pact was officially established on May 14th, 1955, as a response to the integration of Germany into NATO. A type of Warsaw Pact had existed since 1939, when Soviet forces occupied Eastern and Central Europe – the Pact only formalized this arrangement. The eight members of the pact pledged mutual defense to one another, an agreed on mutual non-intervention, respect for national sovereignty, and political independence. Despite this, nearly all government of member states were controlled by the Soviet Union. After the pact was disbanded in February of 1991, many of the
Warsaw Pact states went on to join NATO.
War. Its main goal was to protect communism from western democracies by aiding any communist state that was attacked. It is essentially the opposing force to NATO. Its original members were Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union, Albania.
The Soviet Union mainly created the Warsaw Pact as a buffer zone to protect themselves from a western invasion, especially one
similar to Hitler’s invasion of Russia during the second World War. The Pact was officially established on May 14th, 1955, as a response to the integration of Germany into NATO. A type of Warsaw Pact had existed since 1939, when Soviet forces occupied Eastern and Central Europe – the Pact only formalized this arrangement. The eight members of the pact pledged mutual defense to one another, an agreed on mutual non-intervention, respect for national sovereignty, and political independence. Despite this, nearly all government of member states were controlled by the Soviet Union. After the pact was disbanded in February of 1991, many of the
Warsaw Pact states went on to join NATO.
the WARSAW treaty organization
This website goes over the establishment of the Warsaw Pact and how it effected alliances and treaties which were already in place.
THE WARSAW PACT
This detailed website goes over the Warsaw Pact in its entirety - it focuses on the treaties existing before the pact, the organization of the countries, the rebellions, and how the Pact effected the rest of the world.