Seeing this as an existential threat, the Soviet Union united the countries under its own sphere of influence in Eastern Europe into a defensive alliance known as the Warsaw Pact. These two ...

Indeed, the A-10 Warthog was devised to fight World War III, i.e., the Cold War turning “hot” via an invasion of Western Europe by the Soviet Union and the Soviets’ Warsaw Pact allies ...

Shortly before midnight on August 20, more than 200.000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops from Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany(Romania and Albania refused to take part) invaded ...

The Soviet Union (USSR) wanted to keep control of Eastern Europe to create a buffer zone between itself and Western Europe. The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy.

Hungary was a country in Eastern Europe and was a member of the Warsaw Pact which had been set up in 1955. The Soviet Union (USSR) saw Eastern Europe as a 'buffer-zone' of land which would protect ...