History glossary
Warsaw Pact
the Soviet-led military alliance of Eastern European communist states during the Cold War.
- Category
- Military alliance
- Region
- Eastern Europe
- Date range
- 1955-1991
What it means
The Warsaw Pact was founded in 1955 as a Soviet-led counterpart to NATO. It included the Soviet Union and communist states in Eastern Europe, and it helped Moscow maintain military and political control over the Eastern Bloc.
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