Warsaw Pact founded
May 14, 1955
In response to West German rearmament and NATO, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites signed a mutual defense pact in Warsaw. The two blocs were now formally arrayed against each other. The Cold War had its symmetry. It would last until the pact dissolved in 1991 along with the empire behind it.
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