The military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist nations was called the ...

• A. Westward Expansion
• B. Yellow Journalism
• C. Warsaw Pact
• D. Vietnam War

Answer: (C)

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European communist allies formed a formal military alliance to coordinate defense and maintain influence in the region. This bloc was the Warsaw Pact, created in 1955 as a counterweight to NATO. It united the Soviet Union with several satellite states—East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and later Albania—under a single military command and mutual defense commitments. This arrangement reinforced the East–West divide and gave the Soviet Union a centralized mechanism to project power across Eastern Europe. The other options don’t fit the concept: Westward Expansion pertains to U.S. territorial growth, Yellow Journalism refers to sensationalist news reporting, and the Vietnam War is a separate conflict in Southeast Asia.