THE Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO or Warsaw Pact) has ceased to exist. As this alliance folds up its tents in Eastern Europe, the continent passes from an era of hegemonic control and bipolarity into a time that appears to be, simultaneously, hopeful and discomfiting.The pact's demise ...
摘要: The NATO-Warsaw Pact military competition at the heart of the Cold War was also the incubator of a 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA) in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s, which predates the better-known American concept of RMA of the 1990s....
advocated perestroika and the "new thinking" in the Soviet Union, followed by detente between the Soviet Union and the United States, upheaval in Eastern Europe, the fall of the Berlin wall and the German unification, the disintegration of Warsaw Pact and the CMEA, the collapse of the Soviet...
In 1955, the United States and other members of theNorth Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)made West Germany a member of NATO and permitted it to remilitarize. The Soviets responded with theWarsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization between the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary,...
The dispute over Nikita Khruschev's Soviet disarmament proposals in the 1950s (which entailed the theoretical prospect of the mutual dismantlement of the Warsaw Pact and NATO), the Cuban missile crisis and NATO's internal reform in the 1960s, the sharp differences over the process of D6tente...
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These countries know on which end of the leash they are: the one attached to the collar around their necks. The hand unmistakably is in Washington. These semi-sovereign countries answer to the US with the same servility as member states of the Warsaw Pact once heeded the USSR’s Politburo....
On September 27, 1940, Japan joined the military alliance known as the Axis Powers after signing the Tripartite Pact withGermanyandItaly. As the Japanese forces continued to assert its military power in the Pacific region, theUnited Statesresponded by imposing economic sanctions over Japan, which ...
30Furthermore the rivalry between Prague and Warsaw also came into play to win over the Kremlin’s good graces, in view to obtaining a favour-able arbitration of the territorial disputes between the two countries. The Poles, who had no choice but to accept the loss of eastern Galicia to ...
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