... 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 ... ...

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