Warsaw Pact

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
Founded at	Warsaw, Poland
Dissolved	1 July 1991
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 Warsaw Pact, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was an organization of Central and Eastern European socialistic and people’s democracy 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

MembersEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

↑ "Warsaw Pact and NATO: Warsaw pact communiqué December 1971". Survival. 14 (2): 78–79. March 1972. doi:10.1080/00396337208441319. ISSN 0039-6338.
↑ Sardemann, Gerhard (2010-08-01). "Die Welt aus den Angeln heben". TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis. 19 (2): 8–17. doi:10.14512/tatup.19.2.8. ISSN 2199-9201.

Notes

↑ Withheld support in 1961 due to the Soviet–Albanian split, but formally withdrew in 1968.

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[2] "Warsaw Pact and NATO: Warsaw pact communiqué December 1971". Survival. 14 (2): 78–79. March 1972. doi:10.1080/00396337208441319. ISSN 0039-6338.

[3] Sardemann, Gerhard (2010-08-01). "Die Welt aus den Angeln heben". TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis. 19 (2): 8–17. doi:10.14512/tatup.19.2.8. ISSN 2199-9201.

[Split-1] Withheld support in 1961 due to the Soviet–Albanian split, but formally withdrew in 1968.

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