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Why was the Warsaw Pact was formed?

to force Poland to become a communist nation

to stop the spread of communism in Europe

to provide a collective defense of Eastern Europe

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The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. The Warsaw Pact supplemented existing agreements.

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