The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance formed in 1955 between the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe, including East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania. Its purpose was to counter the perceived threat from NATO, the military alliance led by the United States. The Warsaw Pact dissolved in 1991 following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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The Warsaw Pact Was

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The Warsaw Pact was

A) a military alliance of the Soviet Union and its East European satellites.
B) an alliance of non-aligned nations in Europe, including Yugoslavia, Albania, Poland, and Romania.
C) the agreement in which Roosevelt and Churchill effectively handed Poland over to Stalin.
D) the agreement between the Nazis and the Soviets dividing up Poland.
E) the Eastern Bloc's equivalent of the European Economic Community.

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