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

Soviet troops invaded Hungary in 1956 and Warsaw Pact troops marched into Czechoslovakia in 1968.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 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

NATO, created in 1949 to provide collective security against the Soviet Union, enlarged after the 1991 collapse of the Union with the inclusion of former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries.

From Reuters • Sep. 27, 2023

Waiting for the full might of the Warsaw Pact forces.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell