USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1955, the Soviet Union responded by created the Warsaw Pact.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1955 as per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954. Dominated by the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power or counterweight to NATO.

Detailed explanation-4: -The United States would only agree to provide military support for Europe if it were united. In response, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom signed the Brussels Treaty in March 1948, creating the Western Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -A bulwark against Soviet Russia The Soviet Union responded to NATO by creating its own military alliance with seven other Eastern European communist states in 1955, dubbed the Warsaw Pact.