Today in Warsaw Pact History
International Organisations Topics: ASEAN - Commonwealth - European Union - IMF - NATO - OPEC - United Nations - World Bank
Related Topics: Soviet Union
Historical Events
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1955-05-14 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1956-11-01 - Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact
1968-08-20 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968-08-21 - Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement
1968-09-12 - Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
1968-09-13 - Albania leaves Warsaw pact
1990-01-12 - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
1990-09-24 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1991-03-31 - Soviet Rep of Georgia endorsed independence; Warsaw Pact dissolves
1991-04-01 - Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
1999-03-12 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2005-11-25 - Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released.
