NATO+and+Warsaw+Pact

__**Members of the Pact**__

 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Flag_of_Albania_1946.svg/25px-Flag_of_Albania_1946.svg.png width="25" height="18"]] People's Republic of Albania
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Flag_of_Bulgaria_1971-1990.png/25px-Flag_of_Bulgaria_1971-1990.png width="25" height="15"]] People's Republic of Bulgaria
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Flag_of_Czechoslovakia.svg/22px-Flag_of_Czechoslovakia.svg.png width="22" height="15"]] Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Flag_of_Hungary_1949-1956.svg/25px-Flag_of_Hungary_1949-1956.svg.png width="25" height="17"]] People's Republic of Hungary
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/22px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png width="22" height="14"]] People's Republic of Poland
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Flag_of_Romania_%281965-1989%29.svg/25px-Flag_of_Romania_%281965-1989%29.svg.png width="25" height="17"]] Socialist Republic of Romania
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/22px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png width="22" height="11"]] Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Flag_of_East_Germany.svg/22px-Flag_of_East_Germany.svg.png width="22" height="13"]] German Democratic Republic

**__What the Warsaw Pact was about:__**
Members of the Warsaw Pact pledged to defend each other if one or more of the members were attacked. The treaty also stated that relations among the signatories were based on mutual non-interference in internal affairs and respect for national sovereignty and independence. In 1991, the Warsaw Pact broke up when most of the Communist governments fell, changing to a democratically elected form as the Soviet Union disintegrated.