{"slug": "warsaw-pact", "label": "Warsaw Pact", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41644", "qid": "Q41644", "description": "European Eastern Military Alliance (1954 – 1991)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1955, 1999], "span_label": ["1955 CE", "1999 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}], "related": [{"slug": "nato", "label": "NATO", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "warsaw", "label": "Warsaw", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "poland", "label": "Poland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hungary", "label": "Hungary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "czech-republic", "label": "Czech Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ottawa", "label": "Ottawa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "budapest", "label": "Budapest", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "czechoslovakia", "label": "Czechoslovakia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "communism", "label": "Communism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1955, "year_label": "1955 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – Eight Communist Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defence treaty in Warsaw, Poland, that is called the Warsaw Pact (it will be dissolved in 1991).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371173508#May", "title": "1955", "revid": 1371173508, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The Hungarian Revolution breaks out against the pro-Soviet government, originating as a student demonstration in Budapest. Hungary attempts to leave the Warsaw Pact.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#October", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – Soviet general Mikhail Kazakov assumes command of the Warsaw Pact.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#November–December", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20–21 – Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: The 'Prague Spring' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 6,500 tanks with 800 aircraft invade Czechoslovakia, the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#July–August", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Poland's president signs the Balcerowicz Plan, ending the Communist system in Poland in favor of a capitalist system, leading to abandonment of the Warsaw Pact.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#December", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 12", "text": "February 12 – Representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact meet in Ottawa for an \"Open Skies\" conference. The conference results in agreements about superpower troop levels in Europe and on German reunification.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#February", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 – Former Warsaw Pact members Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic join NATO.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#March", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › March"}}]}