The Warsaw Pact 1955

The Warsaw Pact was a defensive alliance like NATO, it was the USSR and its satellites, all its members agreed to help each other in case of war with joint command structure but dominated with the Soviet Union
The USSR continued to fear Germany and the Warsaw Pact was set up in 1955 in respones to Germany gaining NATO
The Warsaw Pact created a Soviet bloc equal to NATO formalising the division of east and west as there were two military alliances
It gave the soviets a chance to place more of its military forces in eastern Europe making it easier to keep the satellites in line
This helped to crush the Hungary uprising

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	Created by Sophia Hinchliffe over 9 years ago