Pact

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A pact is a formal agreement, usually between two or more states. Notable historic pacts include:

• Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan (1936)
• Auto Pact between Canada and the United States (1965)
• Kellogg-Briand Pact, a multilateral pact against war (1928)
• London Pact, the Treaty of London, between Italy and the Triple Entente (Great Britain, France, and Russia) (1915)
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union (1939)
• Neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union (1941)
• North Atlantic pact, organizing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949)
• Pact of Steel, the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Italy and Germany (1939)
• Trade pact, any treaty that sets wide-ranging tax, tariff, and trade policies between or among nations
• Tripartite Pact, setting up the wartime Axis alliance of Italy, Germany, and Japan (1940)
• U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework concerning the latter country's development of nuclear power (1994)
• Warsaw Pact of Eastern bloc powers led by the Soviet Union (1955)

[edit] PACT as an acronym

• PACT (Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy)
• PACT (Powdered activated carbon treatment), a wastewater treatment technology
• PACT, a protein that activates protein kinase R (PKR)
• PACT, the (Professional Association of Canadian Theatres), see Regional Repertory Theatre

[edit] Other uses

• Diabolical pact, deal with the devil, or Faustian pact
• Pact, Isère, a commune in the Isère département in France

[edit] See also

• Impact
• Covenant