Warsaw Pact

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The Warsaw Pact was a Cold War-era military alliance of Eastern Bloc socialist states led by the Soviet Union, formed to counterbalance NATO.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War organization
collective defense organization
military alliance
appliesToJurisdiction Eastern Bloc regimes
surface form: Eastern Bloc
country Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
dissolutionReason collapse of the Eastern Bloc
dissolution of the Soviet Union
end of the Cold War
dissolved 1991-07-01
foundedBy Soviet Union
hasEffect military integration of Eastern Bloc
hasPart Warsaw Pact self-linksurface differs
surface form: United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact
headquartersLocation Moscow
ideology communism
socialism
inception 1955-05-14
leader Soviet Union
legalForm multilateral treaty
locatedInTimePeriod Cold War
memberOf Eastern Bloc regimes
surface form: Eastern Bloc
namedAfter Warsaw
nativeLabel Układ Warszawski
Warsaw Pact self-linksurface differs
surface form: Варшавский договор
officialName Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance
opposedBy NATO
NATO
surface form: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
purpose collective defense
counterbalance NATO
replaced bilateral Soviet security treaties in Eastern Europe
shortName Warsaw Pact self-linksurface differs
surface form: Warsaw Treaty Organization
signatory Albania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Soviet Union
significantEvent Hungarian Revolution of 1956
Prague Spring
Prague Spring
surface form: Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

withdrawal of Albania

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Hungarian Communist Party alignedWith Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact states
Operation Danube relatedTo Warsaw Pact
General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party existedDuring Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact era
PVO Strany alliance Warsaw Pact
Hungarian People’s Army partOf Warsaw Pact
VMF alliance Warsaw Pact
Estonian SSR wasMemberOf Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact (through the USSR)
Ministerium für Nationale Verteidigung der DDR alliance Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warschauer Pakt
Warsaw Pact Joint Command partOf Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact Joint Command memberOf Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Treaty Organization
Sinatra Doctrine appliesTo Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
Lim-5 allianceUser Warsaw Pact
motor rifle divisions usedBy Warsaw Pact
subject surface form: motor rifle division
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact states
AKM usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
BTR series armored personnel carriers usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
AK-74 usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
Land Forces of the NVA alliance Warsaw Pact
Tupolev Tu-142 allianceUser Warsaw Pact
Soviet Naval Aviation alliance Warsaw Pact
BNA partOf Warsaw Pact
subject surface form: Bulgarian People's Army
BNA alliance Warsaw Pact
subject surface form: Bulgarian People's Army
Tupolev Tu-143 usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
Warsaw Pact airlines politicalBloc Warsaw Pact
Soviet missile program exportedTo Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
Andrei Grechko affiliation Warsaw Pact
PRL alliance Warsaw Pact
subject surface form: Polish People's Republic
RPG-7 usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact countries
Katyusha usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact states
Nationalen Verteidigungsrat der DDR allianceContext Warsaw Pact
subject surface form: Nationaler Verteidigungsrat der DDR
this entity surface form: Warschauer Pakt
NVA emblem associatedWith Warsaw Pact
Three-Line Rifle usedBy Warsaw Pact
this entity surface form: Warsaw Pact states