Warsaw pact
The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance'.
Although this rather cute title sounds more like the agreement which you and your friend have about sending cards to each other on Valentine's Day, it was actually a military treaty, which made countries come to the aid of the others, should any one of them be the victim of foreign aggression.
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty made similar to the NATO agreement. However this pact covered Eastern Europe countries. Although it was stressed by all that the Warsaw Treaty was based on total equality of each nation and mutual non-interference in one another's internal affairs, the Pact quickly became a powerful political tool for the Soviet Union to hold over its allies and harness the powers of their combined military.
When Hungary tried to remove themselves from the agreement in 1956, Soviet forces moved to crush the uprising; and, in 1968, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia with support from five other Pact members.
Following the diminishing power of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the eventual fall of Communism the treaty was useless. The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved in 1991, after governments withdrew their support of the treaty.
Although this rather cute title sounds more like the agreement which you and your friend have about sending cards to each other on Valentine's Day, it was actually a military treaty, which made countries come to the aid of the others, should any one of them be the victim of foreign aggression.
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty made similar to the NATO agreement. However this pact covered Eastern Europe countries. Although it was stressed by all that the Warsaw Treaty was based on total equality of each nation and mutual non-interference in one another's internal affairs, the Pact quickly became a powerful political tool for the Soviet Union to hold over its allies and harness the powers of their combined military.
When Hungary tried to remove themselves from the agreement in 1956, Soviet forces moved to crush the uprising; and, in 1968, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia with support from five other Pact members.
Following the diminishing power of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the eventual fall of Communism the treaty was useless. The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved in 1991, after governments withdrew their support of the treaty.