Ancient history

Warsaw Pact

The Warsaw Pact was signed on May 14, 1955, making real the division that had already existed in the world since World War II, with the emergence of the capitalist and communist blocs ( USSR and Eastern Europe).

The Soviet Union consisted of the following countries:Soviet Union, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania. The capitalist, on the other hand, was composed of Western Europe and the United States.

The treaty established the alignment of member countries, at first for the purpose of self-protection, but over time the agreement did not establish any type of commitment to mutual aid in the event of military violence.

Changes in the geopolitical landscape of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s, with the fall of socialist governments, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War and the crisis in the USSR resulted in the termination of the Pact on March 31. from 1991.


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