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Nominally the Warsaw Pact was a response to a similar treaty made by the Western Allies in 1949 (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO) as well as the re-militarization of West Germany in 1954, both of which posed a potential threat to the Eastern countries. Although it was stressed by all that the Warsaw Treaty was based on total equality of each nation and mutual non-interference in one another's internal affairs, the Pact quickly became a powerful political tool for the Soviet Union to hold sway over its allies and harness the powers of their combined military. When Hungary tried to extricate themselves from the agreement in 1956, Soviet forces moved to crush the uprising; and, in 1968, Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia (with support from five other Pact members), after the Czech government began to exhibit 'Imperialistic' tendencies. 

Following the diminishing power of the USSR in the 1980s and the eventual fall of Communism the treaty became redundant. The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved in Prague in 1991, after successive governments withdrew their support of the treaty.  [] 

During the Cold War, NATO and the Warsaw pact were bitter enemies; one was made up of the Democratic powers, led by the United States; the other was composed of the communist powers and headed by the Soviet Union. They engaged in numerous small conflicts over the course of the war, but the two most famous were the Korean war and the Vietnam war. Both were bloody and long, but the main difference was that the Korean war was a Stalemate- though some would consider it a Democratic victory- and the Vietnam war was a flat-out victory for communism. Both organizations fall under the RATSLEG categories of Technology, Economics, and Government (Social Structure?), and are mainly Military and Political organizations.