The Warsaw Pact was the treaty setting up the Soviet-dominated opposition grouping to NATO, signed in 1955, and theoretically initiated as a response to West Germany joining NATO in the same year. The military structure was known as the Warsaw Treaty...

Not to be confused with the Warsaw Convention, which is an agreement about airlines' financial liability and the Treaty of Warsaw (1970) between West Germany and the People's Republic of Poland. The Warsaw Pact or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially...