The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established on 14 May 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern European states, formed directly in response to the integration of West Germany into NATO earlier that month. It served through the Cold War as the Eastern Bloc's military counterpart to NATO, coordinating the armed forces of its member states under effective Soviet leadership, and its troops intervened to crush reform movements within its own bloc, most notably in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. As Soviet-aligned governments across Eastern Europe collapsed at the end of the Cold War, the Pact was formally disbanded on 25 February 1991.
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Organization TypeIntergovernmental collective defense treaty organization 1 HeadquartersWarsaw, Poland (nominal seat); coordinated from Moscow, Soviet Union 1 IndustryMilitary alliance; collective defense treaty 2 Organization Type
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The Soviet bloc's economic counterpart to the Warsaw Pact's military alliance, both founded within a few years of each other.
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On 14 May 1955, the USSR and seven other Eastern European countries established the Warsaw Pact.
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a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics
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The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics in Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
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The organization serves as a system of collective security and deterrence, whereby its independent members agree to defend each-other from attack by any outside party.
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