GK
INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
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World Bank
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World Health Organization
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UNICEF
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Warsaw Pact
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania (Albania withdrew in 1968).
Detailed explanation-2: -which together with others added a total of 45 divisions. The largest non-Soviet Pact force was that of Poland, with over 300, 000 men, making up 5 tank divisions, 8 motor-rifle divisions, an airborne division and an amphibious division.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet Union also used the Pact to contain popular dissent in its European satellites, for example in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and in Poland in 1981. By the 1980s, the Warsaw Treaty Organization was beset by problems related to the economic slowdown in all Eastern European countries.