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[[File:1033px-Iron_Curtain_Final.png|thumbnail|left|250px|Countries in red are members of the Warsaw Pact, blue are part of NATO. Albania was in the Pact until the 1960s when it left and joined in an alliance with China]]__NOTOC__
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949.
