Warsaw Pact (Communist World)

The Warsaw Pact, officially known as Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, was a mutual defense treaty between eighteen communist states of Europe and Asia. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw. The Warsaw Pact is the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the regional economic organization for the communist states of Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was a Soviet military reaction to creation of ANTO in 1949 and the integration of France into European Defence Community in 1951.