Answer 1

To provide a counterweight to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation led by USA, USSR founded the Warsaw Treaty—an organisation of the communist and socialist
nation-states. Between May 11 and May 14, 1955, the eight member nation’s conference was held at Warsaw, the capital of Poland. USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Romania and Poland participated in the conference. The stated objective of the treaty was collective security, prohibition of nuclear arms, economic and cultural amalgamation etc.