Nations belonging to partnership for peace are former "Warsaw Pact" members.
The Warsaw Pact, formally known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was an aggregate protection arrangement marked in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Association and seven Soviet satellite conditions of Focal and Eastern Europe in May 1955, amid the Cool War. The Warsaw pact was the military supplement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CoMEcon), the local monetary association for the communist conditions of Focal and Eastern Europe. The Warsaw pact was made in response to the joining of West Germany into NATO in 1955 for every the London and Paris Meetings of 1954, however it is additionally considered to have been persuaded by Soviet wants to keep up control over military powers in Central and Eastern Europe.