1 janv. 1955 - Warsaw Pact

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Soviet response to the formation of NATO; an alliance between all the central and eastern bloc nations of the Soviet Union that was structured similarly to NATO; the main difference was that NATO was an alliance of sovereign nations who cooperated willingly; eastern nations were mostly coerced by the USSR into the treaty so that the Soviet Union could matintain control of all the armed forces within its dominion; placed Russia at the head of the new USSR that stretched all acrosseastern and central Europe and acted as the opposition to NATO during the Cold War

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