Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern... Wikipedia
Founded: May 14, 1955, Warsaw, Poland
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Abbreviation: TFCMA, WP
Chief of combined staff: Aleksei Antonov (first); Vladimir Lobov (last)
Dissolved: 1 July 1991
Headquarters: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Successor: Collective Security Treaty Organization