... and signed in Warsaw on May 14,1955. The members of the Warsaw Pact were to defend each other if one was attacked. The pact was officially dissolved at a meeting in Prague on July 1, 1991. History and role of the Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was dominated by the Soviet ... Union. Efforts to leave the Warsaw Pact by member countries were crushed, for instance in the Hungarian revolution of 1956. Hungary planned to leave the Warsaw Pact and ... . When it was clear that the Soviet Union would no longer use force to control the Warsaw Pact countries a series of rapid changes started in East...

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... 1989, I remember the joyous displays of people crossing the border from East Germany to West Germany. I was unknowledgeable about the significance of the "fall of the Berlin Wall", but I understood through the media that it was an important historical event of the twentieth century and would surely become a significant part of world history. German reunification became a reality that many Germans had dreamed of ... for years. The Reunification of the two Germanys was met with great excitement ... 1980's, political changes in Eastern Europe gave Germans the hope for a reunified country,...

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