The Cold War Flashcards

Warsaw Pact (1955)

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Warsaw Pact (1955)

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Military alliance between USSR and Eastern Europe
USSR could keep troops in Warsaw Pact countries
West viewed it as Soviet domination of satellites
USSR used Warsaw Pact troops to crush uprisings in Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968)
Brezhnev Doctrine confirmed right of Warsaw Pact to intervene if communism is threatened

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Other anti-Western alliance

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Cominform
Comecon

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