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  2. Warsaw Pact - Wikipedia

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    Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact led to the expansion of military forces and their integration into the respective blocs. [13] The Warsaw Pact's largest military engagement was the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia , its own member state, in August 1968 (with the participation of all pact nations except Albania and Romania ), [ 12 ] which, in ...

  3. Seven Days to the River Rhine - Wikipedia

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    Seven Days to the River Rhine (Russian: «Семь дней до реки Рейн», romanized: "Sem' dney do reki Reyn") was a top-secret military simulation exercise developed at least since 1964 by the Warsaw Pact. It depicted the Soviet Bloc's vision of a seven-day nuclear war between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. [1] [2] [3]

  4. Enlargement of NATO - Wikipedia

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    In May 1955, West Germany joined NATO, which was one of the conditions agreed to as part of the end of the country's occupation by France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, prompting the Soviet Union to form its own collective security alliance (commonly called the Warsaw Pact) later that month.

  5. History of NATO - Wikipedia

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    During the Cold War, most of Europe was divided between two alliances. Members of NATO are shown in blue, with members of the Warsaw Pact in red and unaffiliated countries are in grey. Yugoslavia, although communist, had left the Soviet sphere in 1948, and Albania was a Warsaw Pact member-only until 1968.

  6. Member states of NATO - Wikipedia

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    Three of NATO's members are nuclear weapons states: France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. NATO has 12 original founding member states. Three more members joined between 1952 and 1955, and a fourth joined in 1982. Since the end of the Cold War, NATO has added 16 more members from 1999 to 2024. [1]

  7. NATO - Wikipedia

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    West Germany joined NATO in 1955, which led to the formation of the rival Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. The North Atlantic Treaty was largely dormant until the Korean War initiated the establishment of NATO to implement it with an integrated military structure.

  8. Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions - Wikipedia

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    The Warsaw Pact's response to NATO's position was that each side should reduce its forces proportionally rather than absolutely and that equipment and troop numbers should be reduced. Each side should cut their forces by 20,000; A subsequent 15 per cent manpower and equipment reduction in manpower by every country in NATO and the Warsaw Pact. [3]

  9. Able Archer 83 - Wikipedia

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    Able Archer 83 was a military exercise conducted by NATO that took place in November 1983, as part of an annual exercise.It simulated a period of heightened nuclear tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, leading to concerns that it could have been mistaken for a real attack by the Soviet Union.