- The Warsaw Pact was created as a direct response to the remilitarisation of West Germany in addition to its recent membership in NATO
- In May 14, 8 communist countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, USSR) grouped their militaries under one central command
- The Pact stated that if one or more countries were attacked, self-defense of the country's own military or the collective military would be used, even with the use of force
- Advantage that USSR was able to organise the militaries better
- The USSR dominated the command of the collective military
- Commander-in-Chiefs were all Soviet, headquartered in Moscow
- Deputy Commander in Chief, Chief of the Joint, and the Commander-in-Chiefs of all three branches of the armed forces were Soviet as well
- Therefore, military were strengthened and the USSR kept the other countries in the Soviet bloc in control
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