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| Conventional Long Name | Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance |
| Common Name | Warsaw Pact |
| Noautocat | yes |
| Continent | Asia and Europe |
| Status | Military alliance |
| Era | Cold War |
| S1 | Collective Security Treaty Organisation |
| Capital | ¹ |
| Year Start | 1955 |
| Date Start | 14 May |
| Year End | 1991 |
| Date End | 1 July |
| Event1 | Hungarian crisis |
| Date Event1 | 4 November 1956 |
| Event2 | Czechoslovakian crisis |
| Date Event2 | 21 August 1968 |
| Event3 | German reunification2 |
| Date Event3 | 3 October 1990 |
| Image Map Caption | Member states: Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany2, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania. |
| Common Languages | Russian, Polish, German, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Albanian |
| Title Leader | Supreme Commander |
| Leader1 | Ivan Konev |
| Year Leader1 | 1955 � 60 (first) |
| Leader2 | Petr Lushev |
| Year Leader2 | 1989 � 91 (last) |
| Title Deputy | Head of Unified Staff |
| Deputy1 | Aleksei Antonov |
| Year Deputy1 | 1955 � 62 (first) |
| Deputy2 | Vladimir Lobov |
| Year Deputy2 | 1989 � 90 (last) |
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The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (1955 � 1991), or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty subscribed to by eight communist states in Eastern Europe. It was established at the Soviet Union's initiative and realized on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw.
In the Communist Bloc, the treaty was the military analogue of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the communist (East) European economic community. The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet Bloc’s military response to West Germany’s May 1955 integration to the NATO Pact, per the Paris Pacts of 1954.
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