The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of the Soviet Union and seven eastern European communist states: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. It was formed a few days after West Germany was admitted to NATO, as a counterweight to the Western alliance. Its headquarters were in Moscow, and in practice it ensured Soviet military control over Eastern Europe. Albania left in 1968, and in that year the Soviet Union and four other members invaded Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring reforms. The Warsaw Pact never fought NATO directly. As communist governments fell in 1989, the alliance lost its purpose and was dissolved in 1991.
Before and after
- from 18 April 1955 to 24 April 1955Asian–African Conference
- 18 April 1955Death of Albert Einstein
- from 18 April 1955 to 24 April 1955The Bandung Conference
- 5 May 1955Publication of Project Blue Book
- from 14 May 1955 to 1 July 1991Founding of Warsaw Pact
- 15 May 1955Austrian State Treaty
- 8 June 1955Birth of Tim Berners-Lee
- 16 June 1955Release of Lady and the Tramp
- 21 June 1955Birth of Michel Platini
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