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Warsaw Pact
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Warsaw Pact A military alliance founded on 14 May 1955 with the ‘Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance’. It was formally a response to the entry of West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) into
NATO. It had a dual function, as the chief military rival to NATO, and as the most effective way to ensure the control of the Soviet Union over the countries of Eastern Europe. Its commander was always a Soviet general, while further bilateral treaties allowed the deployment of Soviet troops in each of the member states. It was first active in ‘solidarity’ when its combined forces, under Soviet leadership, crushed the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Once again in 1968 it intervened to crush the
Prague Spring, while intervention loomed large in Poland just before the introduction of martial law in 1981 (
Solidarność). Its original members were the USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, the GDR (East Germany), Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Albania halted active membership in 1961, and left the Pact in 1968. The Warsaw Pact was dissolved on 1 April 1991, at a time when
Communism had collapsed in Eastern Europe, and the USSR was about to implode.
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"WARSAW-MOSCOW/MOSCOW-WARSAW, 1900-2000"
Magazine article from: Artforum; 5/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; WARSAW "WARSAW-MOSCOW/MOSCOW-WARSAW, 1900-2000" ZACHCTA NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART "Warsaw-Moscow/Moscow-Warsaw, icioo-zooo" was an outgrowth of the pioneering exhibitions of similar character, "Paris-Moscow" and "Berlin...
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 "Norridge News (IL)")
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Warsaw, Eisenhower libraries seek closer ties
Newspaper article from: Norridge News (IL); 10/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...community and public relations director of the Warsaw Public Library and the Central Library...proposal for expanding the mission of the Warsaw Library, currently celebrating its 100th...she'd proposed. The 100-year-old Warsaw Library building is getting an extreme...
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Warsaw: the orthopedic-products manufacturing capital of the world.
Magazine article from: Indiana Business Magazine; 5/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; The city of Warsaw, a community of 13,000 people, seems...halfway between South Bend and Fort Wayne, Warsaw is near the Lake Wawasee resort area and...It is politically conservative, but Warsaw also is known as the world center for...
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Warsaw: a growing "orthopedics capital of the world.".
Magazine article from: Indiana Business Magazine; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...employing more than 5,500 have earned Warsaw, long dubbed "Lake City" because of its three lakes, a new moniker. Today, Warsaw is also known as the "Orthopedic Capital...With the November 2005 announcement that Warsaw-headquartered Zimmer, an orthopedic...
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Warsaw bloodbath still stirs emotions German chancellor to pay homage to Poles who died 60 years ago
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; WARSAW, Poland -- On Europe's great fault line, where...steeped with symbolism: A German chancellor will be in Warsaw for the first time to pay homage to the dead in the doomed Warsaw Uprising of 1944. Sixty years after the rebellion...
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WARSAW LOOKS BACK, AHEAD POLISH CITY PROVES VIBRANT, AFFORDABLE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 3/8/2006; ; 700+ words
; WARSAW When Danuta Mieloch wants an upscale, energetic...jet off to London or Paris. She heads to Warsaw, the capital of her native Poland. "It...s nothing particularly picturesque about Warsaw, a city of 1.6 million residents located...
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Warsaw Marriott officially opens; 500th hotel celebrated by dignitaries and officials.
PR Newswire; 10/26/1989; 700+ words
; WARSAW MARRIOTT OFFICIALLY OPENS; 500TH HOTEL CELEBRATED BY DIGNITARIES AND OFFICIALS WARSAW, Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Tomorrow, the tallest hotel in Poland, the 520-room Warsaw Marriott, will officially open in a celebration...
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 "The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)")
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Warsaw's legacy far-reaching.(Sports Columnist)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 6/4/2009; 700+ words
; ...The Register-Guard Technically, Jim Warsaw was a University of Oregon graduate for...years of battling Parkinson's disease. Warsaw, whose initial gift of $250,000 enabled...to found the internationally recognized Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, had been an...
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In Warsaw, beauty lies in business
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/26/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...is chief of the Globe bureau in Berlin. WARSAW -- Jonathan Mills, a Boston businessman living in Warsaw, likes to tell this joke: A Frenchman...Paris. A mix-up lands both planes in Warsaw. Each man thinks he has arrived at his...
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Uplifting the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal; 1/31/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...establishment of the new "Museum of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944" (MWU). The museum...under construction in the Wola district of Warsaw, Poland at 28 Przyokopowa St. This is...exactly marking The 60th Anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. After being introduced...
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Warsaw
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
WARSAW WARSAW (Polish, Warszawa). A small late medieval settlement on the left bank of the middle Vistula, Warsaw became the capital of the Principality of Mazovia during the reign of Janusz...
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Warsaw Pact
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Warsaw Pact (est. 1955).The Warsaw Pact was created by the Soviet Union on 14 May 1955 as a political...entry of West Germany into NATO in 1955. Officially called the Warsaw Treaty Organization, the original eight members were Albania...
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Warsaw Treaty Organization
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
WARSAW TREATY ORGANIZATION The Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO), also referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was created on May 14, 1955, by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union...
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Warsaw risings
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Warsaw risings. There were two risings against...operation TEMPEST . The uprising in the Warsaw ghetto which broke out on 19 April 1943...inevitable (see Final Solution ) the Jews of Warsaw decided to die with dignity and honour by...
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Warsaw Uprising
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Warsaw Uprising 1. (February 1943) An uprising...000–100,000 survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto (established in 1940 for 400,000...August 1944) The Polish insurrection in Warsaw in World War II, in which Poles tried to...
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