WORLD HISTORY

COLD WAR ERA

IMPACT OF COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which headline concerning the Soviet Union refers to a Cold War event?
A
“Yeltsin Assumes Power”
B
“Trotsky Forms Red Army”
C
“Germany Invades USSR”
D
“Warsaw Pact Formed”
Explanation: 

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 (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Soviet Union dominated Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. After World War II, it formed the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance of European communist states meant to counter NATO.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.

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