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

He concedes that is a dramatic statement, but when asked to explain, he responds only that “I feel these things. I am a revolutionary. I know what I am talking about. I destroyed the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. So, as you can see, I know a thing or two.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union threatened to invade Western Europe through the Fulda Gap and in the north German plain, building up Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces along NATO’s eastern flank.

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

From The Wall Street Journal

The Soviet Union’s Cold War-era answer to NATO, the Warsaw Pact, fell apart as a series of democratic revolutions and the fall of the Soviet Union opened the way for nations once aligned with Moscow to join the Atlantic bloc.

From The Wall Street Journal

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