Warsaw Pact

British  

noun

1. a military treaty and association of E European countries, formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania: East Germany left in 1990; the remaining members dissolved the Pact in 1991

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Warsaw Pact Cultural  

1. A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. It disintegrated in 1991, in the wake of the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

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Example Sentences

Witness the manner in which trade liberalization in the European Economic Community and its successor, the European Union, brought unparalleled prosperity first to Western Europe and later to the former members of the Warsaw Pact.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Back during the Cold War, the Kremlin blocked its Warsaw Pact allies from developing or obtaining nuclear materials—it even confiscated some of those allies’ uranium mines.

From Slate • Oct. 25, 2024

In the late 1980s, as the Warsaw Pact disintegrated and the Soviet Union began to fall apart, political scientist Francis Fukuyama imagined an “end of history.”

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

When it was signed, the CFE envisaged weapons limits for the Warsaw Pact and NATO, but the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist shortly after it was signed.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2023

Waiting for the full might of the Warsaw Pact forces.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell