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The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
- WAPA, DDSV
- 14 May 1955
NATO: a defensive military alliance where an attack on any NATO member would be met with armed force by all member nations. Mainly was against communist countries and the spread of communism to Western Europe. Warsaw Pact: A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.
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As a result, scholars have been able to explore many aspects of the Warsaw Pact that could only be guessed at in the past, including questions of military planning, force preparations and operations, nuclear command arrangements, and civil-military issues. View the declassified Warsaw Pact FOIA documents. Download PDF.
- A Counterbalance to NATO
- De Facto Soviet Control
- The Warsaw Pact’S Modern Legacy
By 1955, treaties already existed between the USSR and neighbouring Eastern European countries, and the Soviets already exerted political and military dominance over the region. As such, it could be argued that the establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation was superfluous. But the Warsaw Pact was a response to a very particular set of geopoli...
The pact’s signatories were the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). While the pact was billed as a collective security alliance, much like NATO, in practice it reflected the USSR’s regional dominance. Soviet geostrategic and ideological interests typically over...
Since 1990, the year of Germany’s reunification, NATO’s intergovernmental alliance has grown from 16 to 30 countries, including numerous former Eastern Bloc states, such as the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Albania. It’s perhaps telling that NATO’s expansion east came in the wake of the dissolution of th...
- Harry Atkins
World War II. Invasion of Poland, attack on Poland by Nazi Germany that marked the start of World War II. The invasion lasted from September 1 to October 5, 1939. As dawn broke on September 1, 1939, German forces launched a surprise attack on Poland. The attack was sounded with the predawn shelling, by the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein ...
- Adrian Gilbert
The Cold War's end did not conclude its influence on American foreign policy. The lessons, successes, failures, and traumas of this epoch continue to reverberate through the U.S.'s approach to international relations, shaping strategic choices and influencing national security doctrine.
The war saw a dramatic expansion of the United States government in an attempt to harness the war effort and a significant increase in the size of the U.S. Armed Forces . After a relatively slow start in mobilizing the economy and labor force, by spring 1918, the nation was poised to play a role in the conflict.
