Warsaw Treaty Organization: Meaning and Definition of

War'saw Trea'ty Organiza"tion

Pronunciation: [key]
  1. an organization formed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, and the U.S.S.R., for collective defense under a joint military command. Also calledCf.
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