Warsaw Pact signed
May 14, 1955
Eight Communist states of Eastern Europe signed the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, the Soviet answer to NATO. The pact formalized the military dimension of the Iron Curtain. It would be invoked to justify the invasion of Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968. The two blocs were now properly armed and aimed.
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