Source C The meeting of the Warsaw Pact signatories in May 1955
On 14 May 1955 the USSR and its Eastern European partners established a mutual defence treaty. As it was signed in Warsaw it became known as the Warsaw Pact. Ostensibly it was a reaction to the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into NATO in 1954, but it was really the result of long-running tensions between the Soviet Union and the USA and its European allies. The pact included the USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and the German Democratic Republic.
Extract from Europe by Norman Davies (published in 1997):
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