1955: Warsaw Pact formed

DATE: May 1955

DESCRIPTION: The Warsaw Pact was a pact of mutual defence between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. This was a reaction to the formation of NATO.

BLAME: The tensions seem to rise higher and higher as the pact seems to give an impenetrable force that the allies can’t get past. Eight communist states have set up a defence that the allies were hoping not to happen. The blame here is due to the communist collective defence and therefore their fault in causing the tensions to rise. The tensions continue to rise as more and more people are afraid of a full on war between these two organizations. There is enough power and enough countries willing to put it all on the line to defend their ideology. The blame here is to the communist, again this is all for the defence of their own nations but in doing so it raises the tensions as now two superpowers with the appropriate allies now have the excuse to bring full world war with each other.

TENSION INCREASE: TThe Warsaw pact was due to the NATO pact that the allies had organized after the end of WWII to counter the communist threat. The communist states also needed a same mutual defence agreement with each other to help protect them from an allied attack. +2

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