Cold War: The Warsaw Pact

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The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty between the Soviet Union and its counterparts during the height of the Cold War. Severe amounts of tension at the beginning of the Cold War led to the formation of the Communist Warsaw Pact, as well as, the democratic NATO. The Warsaw Pact countries and the NATO countries, west versus east, were in an arms race that promoted harsh living conditions in the Communist Warsaw Pact Countries. The ending of the Cold War signified the end of the Warsaw Pact, but not the end of relations between the western and eastern countries. Before the Warsaw Pact, there was an organization called The Soviet Alliance System that began during World War II in 1943. “While liberating Eastern Europe from Nazi Germany in World

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