Vanesa R. Hyde
Mrs. Bridgette Tantorno
Honors U.S. and Global Studies
20 October 2015
The Warsaw Pact Imagine that the world is a roaring sphere of suspicion and all fingers are pointed toward you. Welcome to the Soviet Union during the Post-World War II era. Only four short years after the end of World War II, the United States along with eleven of its allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was a treaty based on collective security which means if one is attacked, it is as if all has been attacked. Now the Soviet Union felt as if it needed a treaty group as well to be able to combat NATO. Thus, the Warsaw Pact was born (Clayton, Andrew,et al.). Now let us take a look at the city of Warsaw, Poland in May of 1955, where the leaders of the Soviet Union and their satellite nations are hard at work (History.com Staff). The Soviet Union wanted to create a mutual-defense organization so that they would be able to better combat NATO if it ever came to the point of war (“The Warsaw Treaty Organization, …show more content…
By 1990, East Germany had left the pact so that it could be once again reunited as “one” Germany with West Germany (“The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955”). By the fall of the same year, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary had all withdraw from the military exercises of the Warsaw Pact (“The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955”). Finally, all the representative of the remaining Warsaw Pact members met together in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1991 (Cavendish). Since the Cold War had come to a close toward the end of the 1980’s, the Warsaw Pact had begun to be viewed as unnecessary and in fact, unwanted (“The Warsaw Pact”). Thus, it officially fell apart in July, 1991 about 36 years after it had been formed (“The Warsaw Pact”). Most ironically, most of the members from the Warsaw Pact joined NATO, all except the former Soviet Union, of course (“The Warsaw
Mrs. Bridgette Tantorno
Honors U.S. and Global Studies
20 October 2015
The Warsaw Pact Imagine that the world is a roaring sphere of suspicion and all fingers are pointed toward you. Welcome to the Soviet Union during the Post-World War II era. Only four short years after the end of World War II, the United States along with eleven of its allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It was a treaty based on collective security which means if one is attacked, it is as if all has been attacked. Now the Soviet Union felt as if it needed a treaty group as well to be able to combat NATO. Thus, the Warsaw Pact was born (Clayton, Andrew,et al.). Now let us take a look at the city of Warsaw, Poland in May of 1955, where the leaders of the Soviet Union and their satellite nations are hard at work (History.com Staff). The Soviet Union wanted to create a mutual-defense organization so that they would be able to better combat NATO if it ever came to the point of war (“The Warsaw Treaty Organization, …show more content…
By 1990, East Germany had left the pact so that it could be once again reunited as “one” Germany with West Germany (“The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955”). By the fall of the same year, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary had all withdraw from the military exercises of the Warsaw Pact (“The Warsaw Treaty Organization, 1955”). Finally, all the representative of the remaining Warsaw Pact members met together in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1991 (Cavendish). Since the Cold War had come to a close toward the end of the 1980’s, the Warsaw Pact had begun to be viewed as unnecessary and in fact, unwanted (“The Warsaw Pact”). Thus, it officially fell apart in July, 1991 about 36 years after it had been formed (“The Warsaw Pact”). Most ironically, most of the members from the Warsaw Pact joined NATO, all except the former Soviet Union, of course (“The Warsaw