Question

In which year was the Warsaw pact established?
A) 1960
B) 1945
C) 1950
D) 1955

Answer 1

Hint: The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, was formed shortly after West Germany joined the Alliance. It was a complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, a regional economic organisation established by the Soviet Union for communist republics in Central and Eastern Europe in January 1949.

Complete answer:
During the Cold War, the Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially the Treaty of Friendship, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland in May 1955 between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc communist nations of Central and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact was a military wing of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, a regional economic organisation that brought together socialist republics from Central and Eastern Europe. Following West Germany's accession to NATO in 1955 as a result of the 1954 London and Paris Conferences, the Warsaw Pact was founded.

The Warsaw Pact was formed as a counterweight or balance of strength to NATO. Instead of a direct military confrontation, the struggle was conducted on an ideological level and through proxy warfare. NATO and the Warsaw Pact both resulted in military force expansion and integration into their respective blocs.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘D’.

Note: Following German reunification in 1990, East Germany left the Pact. The defence and foreign ministers of the six surviving member states pronounced the Pact dead on February 25, 1991, during a conference in Hungary. The USSR was destroyed in December 1991, but the Collective Security Treaty Organization was shortly formed by the former Soviet republics.