Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance | |
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Abbreviation | WTO, WAPA, DDSV |
Motto | Union of peace and socialism |
Type | Military alliance |
Headquarters | Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Chief of Combined Staff |
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Affiliations | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
The Warsaw Pact, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was an organization of Central and Eastern European socialistic and people’s democracy states. The states were all allies and would fight together if one of them was attacked. While in theory all the countries in the organisation were equals, the smaller countries were controlled by the Soviet Union. The countries in the Warsaw Pact were East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania however Albania withdrew in 1968 following the 1968 Warsaw Pact Invasion Of Czechoslovakia and so did Romania.