Warsaw Pact, treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
The treaty provided for a unified military command and for the maintenance of Soviet military units within other participating states. NATO and the Warsaw Pact were established. The Warsaw Pact. While the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to NATO, there was no direct confrontation between them.
Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and … The USA and the Soviet Union’s opposing political and economic beliefs caused the Cold War. Instead, the conflict was fought on an ideological basis. The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Union’s response to West Germany joining NATO and came into being in May 1955.
Both competed in an arms race. The Warsaw Pact, named after the meeting to create it was held in Warsaw, was based throughout the Soviet Bloc and troops in it were used in the ending of the 1968 Czech Revolt. NATO, military blocs and the Warsaw Pact were short term effects of the cold war. It led to conflicts such as the Vietnam War.