Warsaw Pact

At the end of the Cold War, the Warsaw Pact fell apart and the Soviet Union had collapsed. NATO began to grow and include former Soviet Union satellite states and eventually a link was formed between NATO and Russia. After the Cold War, NATO’s role in world affairs changed, and United States…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Film is movie based on the lives of three Czechoslovaks during the 1968 Prague Spring social liberation and consequent Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion. The military coup reestablished a strong socialist regime more in line with the Soviet Union vision of a strong dictatorship of the Communist Party. This was in order to prevent dissidents or free minds from disrupting the central socialist government administration. The film portrays the lives of a Tomas, a…

Czechoslovakia. After he took over Czechoslovakia it was clear that Poland was going to be his next target. His invasion of Poland was enabled by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a secret Nazi-Soviet pact of non aggression. This pact was signed on August 23rd 1939, just a week before Germany invaded Poland. The pact allowed Germany to attack Poland, and Poland was divided in half between Germany and the Soviet…

weapons, compared to what they had before. Moreover, U.S. formed the military bloc, NATO, while the Soviet Union formed The Warsaw Pact. These led to proxy wars, like the Vietnam War and the Korean War. Towards the end of the Cold War-era, living standards of fallen in the Soviet Union, causing them to collapse thanks to their economic weaknesses. With this, The Warsaw Pact became non-existent, and former Soviet republics, like the Baltic States, became independent. With the fall of the…

The year of 1962 in Poland was already a tense and hectic year. With the growing tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the threat of war between the Western and Eater Bloc, ideas for lightening the mood were needed. With this is mind, The Warsaw Pact decided to organize huge military exercises, located in northwest Poland, around the area of Szczecin. Marshal of the Soviet Union, Andrei Grechkoseveral, and several other Polish officials, including Władysław Gomułka and Marian Spychalski…

S.R. worried that the criticism of government might spark a revolution. The soviet union tried to make agreements with Czechoslovakia to censor more free speech but when that failed they sent in military force. The Soviet Union sent in 202,000 Warsaw Pact troops and tanks to occupy Czechoslovakia, which killed and wounded 774 Czechoslovakians. The people of Czechoslovakia did not physically resist these attacks but people were in a panic. Some Czechoslovakians resisted the Soviet Union by…

political and strategic conflict between the Soviet Union and the American government. Initially, Khrushchev had illegally demanded that the United States give the Soviet Union West Berlin as part of a deal on the partitioning of Germany through the Warsaw Pact. The United States refused to turn over West Berlin to the Soviet’s, which caused Khrushchev to form a new strategy involving the movement of nuclear missiles to Cuba to create a bargaining chip to force the Americans to give over West…

States and the Soviet Union divided world power. The distinction between the Soviet Union and the United Sates was from a defined American foreign policy. Democratic and Communist beliefs were in contrast that lasted forty-five years. NATO and Warsaw Pact divided Europe from the East and West. NATO countries were democracies.…

airfield that that has been decommissioned since 2000, near Nowe Miasto, in Poland. The cracked, crumbling runway is in bad shape from long lack of any maintenance, as the past Polish unit stationed there used helicopters, and conditions at the former Warsaw Pact airfield are poor in general. Not a problem for the A-10, which is nearly immune to FOD (Foreign Object Damage), usually caused by trash or debris being sucked into the engine air intakes during takeoffs and landings, thanks to its…

Air for East Germany due to political tension between USSR and the US. NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization was also established. It was one of first mutual defense alliances implemented. To counter NATO, the Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact, which is the alliance of communist countries. On the fourth of April, 1949, the Washington Treaty was marked by twelve countries, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United…