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2 days ago · On 1 July 1991, the Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague. At a summit later that same month, Gorbachev and Bush declared a US–Soviet strategic partnership, decisively marking the end of the Cold War.
2 days ago · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.
2 days ago · The coup was the last gasp of those who were astonished at and felt betrayed by the precipitous collapse of the Soviet Union's empire in Eastern Europe and the swift destruction of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon that followed.
2 days ago · This map shows the expansion of NATO over time. Have students identify the most recently states to join NATO. Which states have joined NATO after the collapse of communism?
2 days ago · Due to the Prague Spring, Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces invaded Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968, and attacked Czechoslovak Radio. Seventeen unarmed Czechoslovak civilians and radio station employees were killed, including unarmed Czechoslovak civilians and radio station employees defending the Czechoslovak Radio on Vinohradoská Street in ...
1 day ago · Both the Warsaw Pact—a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Central and Eastern European Soviet satellite states—and Chinese air forces had numbers, but NATO’s ...
5 days ago · Poland has been a member of NATO since 1999, and was the first former Warsaw Pact nation to join the alliance. "It was a long, busy night for the entire air defense system in Poland," the Polish ...
