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 ...

NATO and the Warsaw Pact were established. Both competed in an arms race. Flashpoints – Hungary, Berlin, Cuba In the 1950s and early 1960s, relations between the USA and the Soviet Union ...

The Warsaw Pact meant that the USSR controlled Hungarian foreign policy. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, made a ‘Secret Speech’ in February 1956 which criticised the previous Soviet ...