Warsaw Pact

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The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Eastern European Soviet Bloc countries intended to organize the communist bloc of eastern European countries against the perceived threat from the NATO alliance, established in 1949. The treaty was drafted by Khrushchev in 1955 and signed in Warsaw on May 14, 1955; its members were the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Czechoslovakia--all the Communist countries of Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia. The members of the Warsaw Pact were to defend each other if one was attacked. The pact was officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague on July 1, 1991.