... , Japan, The Philippines and many other countries of Western Europe and Latin America. The soviet union led the eastern bloc , which included Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania . Following the communist take over of its government in 1949 , China joined the eastern bloc. Nations who were impartial and were not included in either bloc included India, Indonesia Cambodia ... ...
... formed in 1955 and called the Warsaw Pact." 1 The Warsaw Pact consisted of seven Eastern European countries. They were the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. While these pacts were forming, the United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms race. They were building lots of nuclear weapons, trying to out produce each other ... ...
... U.S. leadership to defend the west against the Soviet Union's military threat. Seventeen European countries, Canada, and the U.S. signed the treaty. Therefore, in 1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed the Alliance Treaty in Warsaw, Poland, known as the Warsaw Pact. These eight communist countries agreed to settle all disputes among themselves or others through ... ...
