Warsaw Pact 1955 | The Main Event Episode 13 | Global Entertainment

Warsaw Pact 1955 | The Main Event Episode 13 | Global Entertainment The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance (Russian: Договор о дружбе, сотрудничестве и взаимной помощи) and sometimes, informally, WarPac.[1] was a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO[2][3][4][5] in 1955 per the Paris Pacts of 1954,[6][7][8][9][10] but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe.[11] While the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power[12] or counterweight[13] to NATO, there was no direct confronta