Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was an organization of Central and Eastern European Communist states. The states were all allies and would fight together if one of them was attacked. While in theory all the countries in the organisation were equals, the smaller countries were controlled by the Soviet Union.

Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance

The WTO in 1990
Abbreviation	WTO, WAPA, DDSV
Motto	Union of peace and socialism
Founded	14 May 1955 (1955-05-14)
Founded at	Warsaw, Poland
Dissolved	1 July 1991 (1991-07-01)
Type	Military alliance
Headquarters	Moscow, Soviet Union
Membership	Albania Bulgaria Czechoslovakia East Germany Hungary Poland Romania Soviet Union
Supreme Commander	Ivan Konev (first) Pyotr Lushev (last)
Chief of Combined Staff	Aleksei Antonov (first) Vladimir Lobov (last)
Affiliations	Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

The political situation in Europe during the Cold War.

Distinguish from the Warsaw Convention, which is an agreement about financial liability in air travel, and the Treaty of Warsaw (1970) between West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland.

It was established in 1955 in Warsaw, Poland in response to West Germany joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). The treaty was signed in Warsaw, on 14 May 1955 and official copies were made in the languages of Russian, Polish, Czech and German. The Pact lasted until the end of the Cold War when some members quit in 1991, following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and political changes in the Soviet Union.

Members

• Soviet Union (main contributor)
• East Germany
• Czechoslovakia
• Bulgaria
• Hungary
• Poland
• Romania
• Albania (withdrew its support in 1962 over ideological differences, formally left in 1968)

All the Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe signed except Yugoslavia.

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