Step 1 : Introduction to the question "9. After May 14, 1955, the USSR were allied to seven other states of Eastern Europe. What was the name of this military alliance?"
...1. Major Military Alliance 2. Warsaw Pact 3. USSR Military Pact 4. People's Republic The members of this bloc, besides the Soviet Union, were Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia. Albania was excluded from membership in 1962. Only in the north west and south did the USSR directly confront countries whose political and social structures and way of life were non-Communist.
