The threat of West Germany’s entry into NATO in 1955 caused the USSR to retaliate by forming the Warsaw Pact or ‘Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.’ Majority of ...

What resulted was the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949. The Warsaw Pact was signed six years later in response to West Germany joining NATO. Natasha Fernandes ...

Martina Navratilova recently reminisced about the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia ... At the time, Evert was already an established player, while Navratilova was a promising 16-year ...

To truly understand the geopolitics of this current conflict is to understand the long and brutal history of the Soviet Union, the creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact.Feb. 19, 2023 ...

Having spent some years intermittently covering former Warsaw Pact countries as a journalist for various publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Politico Europe, and the like including cover ...

Bulgaria was on the losing side in both World Wars I and II and ended up being in the Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact after the Red Army took over in late 1944 (the impressive structure in the ...

On 14 May 1955, the leader of the Soviet Union and leaders from seven European countries met to sign the Warsaw Pact. In the years following World War Two, the Soviet Union and the United States ...