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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. The Warsaw Pact ( WP ), [ d] formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance ( TFCMA ), [ e] 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.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) maintains a peacekeeping force that has been deployed to areas of conflict, including Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The force is composed of troops from member states and is designed to provide stability and security in the region. On 6 October 2007, CSTO members agreed to a major expansion of the ...
The Polish People's Republic (1952–1989), [ a] formerly the Republic of Poland (1947–1952), [ b] was a country in Central Europe that existed as the predecessor of the modern-day democratic Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million near the end of its existence, it was the second most-populous communist and Eastern ...
Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [ 2]
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO. [ 199 ] [ 197 ] Although nominally a "defensive" alliance, the Pact's primary function was to safeguard the Soviet Union's hegemony over its Eastern European satellites, with the Pact's only direct military actions having been the invasions of its own member ...
Soviet empire. The countries of the Warsaw Pact, the main block of Soviet imperialism. Greatest territorial extent of the Soviet empire (red) in 1959–1960; after the Cuban Revolution but before the Sino-Soviet split. This territory was politically, economically, and militarily dominated by the Soviet Union amidst the Cold War, covering an ...
On 20–21 August 1968, the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was jointly invaded by four Warsaw Pact countries: the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, and the Hungarian People's Republic. The invasion stopped Alexander Dubček 's Prague Spring liberalisation reforms and strengthened the authoritarian ...
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