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- proper noun A
pact (long-term alliancetreaty ) signed on May 14, 1955 inWarsaw by theSoviet Union and itsCommunist military allies in Europe - proper noun The
Warsaw Treaty Organization which was established by the above treaty, a strategic alliance comparable and opposed toNATO
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Examples
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Beck himself had spent the previous five years building a military alliance called the Warsaw Pact among the various nations that bordered on the Soviet Union.
Archive 2009-02-01 Johnny Pez 2009
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Beck himself had spent the previous five years building a military alliance called the Warsaw Pact among the various nations that bordered on the Soviet Union.
DBTL 16: Of Course You Know This Means War Johnny Pez 2009
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After all, the 1990 CFE treaty, which established equal quotas for battle tanks, heavy artillery, and combat aircraft, technically only applied to members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, which is long defunct.
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It could have been started by the Berlin Blockade, which started just three years after the war ended at a time when the frontier between NATO and the Warsaw Pact was a place as tense as the 38th Parallel is today.
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The NATO alliance had been established to protect Western Europe against what his country had once been, and his former country had established its own mirror-image alliance called the Warsaw Pact right here in this very city.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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The Warsaw Pact was the Eastern Bloc regional security organization founded in 1955 as a challenger to the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO.
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Now, it might be too late, as Russia embarks on a new kind of Warsaw Pact, one that might live the ideals of May Day.
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Airsoft Team "Warsaw Pact" Latest Footage Trebbin 2010 Music Band: The Raconteurs Title:
WN.com - Articles related to Taiwan president: Trade pact to end Taiwan's economic isolation 2010
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Airsoft Team "Warsaw Pact" Latest Footage Trebbin 2010
WN.com - Articles related to Taiwan president: Trade pact to end Taiwan's economic isolation 2010
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During the Cold War we refused to refuse first use largely because of the desire by our NATO allies in Western Europe to feel they had a U.S. nuclear umbrella as protection against the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.
How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011
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