Warsaw Pact

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Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance

Founded14 May 1955
Dissolved1 July 1991


The Warsaw Pact, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a socialist and anti-imperialist mutual defense pact between the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries.[1] It initially included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the USSR. Albania left the Warsaw Pact in 1968 after siding with China in the Sino-Soviet split.[2]

References

  1. "The Warsaw Pact is formed" (2009-11-13). History.com. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
  2. Omari & Pollo (1988). The History of the Socialist Construction of Albania (pp. 289–290). [PDF] Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House.