The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty Organization, is officially called as the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. It was a military agreement of socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe.
History of Warsaw Pact
It was established on 14 May 1955 in Warsaw, Poland. The Pact served to counter the potential threat from the NATO alliance and also to retaliate against the integration of a "re-militarized" West Germany into NATO on 9 May 1955 via ratification of the Paris Peace Treaties. The treaty was signed in Warsaw on May 14, 1955 and official copies were made in Russian, Polish, Czech and German. This treaty was modeled on the NATO treaty, in that there was a political Consultative Committee, followed by a civilian secretary general, while down the chain of command there was a military commander in chief and a combined staff, although the similarities between the two international organizations ended there.
The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania.
