Warsaw Pact

he Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty, officially named the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance , was an organization of Central

Central Europe

Central Europe is the region [i] lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern [i] ...

and Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the east [i]ern region [i] of Europe [i] variably defined. ...

an Communist state

Communist state

A Communist state is a state which declares its allegiance to the principles of Marxism-Leninism [i]. ...

s. It was established in 1955 in Warsaw, Poland to counter the alleged threat from the NATO

NATO

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alliance .

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1955 The Warsaw Pact is formed by the communist states of Eastern Europe and the USSR.

1956 Hungarian revolution against the pro-Soviet government. Soviet Union intervenes. Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact.

1965 Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov assumes command of the Warsaw Pact.

1966 A conference of the Warsaw Pact ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.

1968 Two hundred thousand Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia, to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization.

1991 The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague.

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