Warsaw Pact

The treaty friendship, Co-operation and mutual assistance more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between 8 communist states in eastern and central europe in existence during the Cold War. The fouding treaty was established under the initiative of the soviet union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of east and central europe. The warsaw pact was in part a soviet military reaction to the intergration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the Paris pacts of 1954 but was primarily motivated by soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe which in turn (according to the Warsaw pact's preamble) to maintain peace in Europe, guided by the objective points and principles of the charter of the United Nations (1945)..

Structure

Treaty of friendship, Co-operation and Mutual assistance

"The treaty friendship, Co-operation and mutual assistance" 1955-1991
Motto Union of peace and socialism"
Member states of the Warsaw Pact Soviet union Poland East Germany Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Hungary Romania Albania
Languages: Russian, Polish, German,Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian
Political Structure: Military Alliance Supreme commander 1955-1960 (first)  Ivan Kornev 1989-1991 (last)  Petr Lushev Head of Unified Staff 1955-1960 (first)  Alexei Antonov 1989-1990 (last)  Vladimir Lobov
Historical era       Cold War Established Hungarian crisis Czechoslovakian crisis End of Communism in Poland German reunificiation Disestablished

The Warsaw Treaty's organization was two-fold: The Political Counsultative Committee handled political matters, and the Combined command of pact armed forces controlled assigned multi-national forces, with headquarthers in Warsaw, Poland. Furthermore, the supreme commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty organization was also a first deputy minister of defense of the USSR, and the head of the Warsaw Treaty combined staff also was a first deputy Chief of also was a first deputy chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Therefore, although ostensibly an international collective security alliance, the USSR dominated the Warsaw Treaty armed forces.

External links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact