Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact

The Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact was a military alliance formed in 1955 among the Soviet Union and several Eastern European communist countries, including Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and others. It was established in response to NATO, the Western military alliance. The pact aimed to coordinate military strategies and ensure collective defense against perceived threats from the West during the Cold War. Its forces operated under a unified command structure, emphasizing cooperation among member nations. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved in 1991 as the communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed and the Cold War came to an end.