Albania’s private farms still produce about eighhty-seven…

Albania’s private farms still produce about eighhty-seven percent of the country’s agricultural output.

The government begins a program of rapid industrialization after the APL's Second Party Congress and a campaign of forced collectivization of farmland in 1955.

In this year, Albania becomes a founding member of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (better known as the Warsaw Pact, the only military alliance the nation has ever joined.

Although the pact represents the first promise Albania has obtained from any of the communist countries to defend its borders, the treaty does nothing to assuage the Albanian leaders' deep mistrust of Yugoslavia.