USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What event prompted the creation of the Warsaw Pact? In May 1955 West Germany joined NATO, which prompted the Soviet Union to form the Warsaw Pact alliance in central and eastern Europe the same year.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 and represented a Soviet counterweight to NATO, composed of the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dominated by the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Western Bloc.

Detailed explanation-4: -NATO was formed to combat the spread of communism, and the warsaw pact was formed to be an answer to the the nato alliance, and to keep the eastern block countires in line since most had soviet troops in their countries.

Detailed explanation-5: -In reaction to West Germany’s NATO accession, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European client states formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955.