Question

The Warsaw Pact was a merger of Communist nations after WWII as a reaction to this alliance of democratic nations.

A)United Nations
B)Soviet Union
C)The Empire
D)North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Answer 1

Very very possibly D, NATO. This assumes that NATO is basically a sort of military alliance, and the soviet bloc decided to "join in the fun" so to speak by entering into a "MAD" arms race (MAD = Mutually Assured Destruction).
The UN MAY have sneaked in as well.
I'd try to dispute the word "merger", in favour of the word "subjugation", but teacher would probably beat me up for it.

Answer 2

yup, it's NATO.
The Soviets and each Warsaw Pact country were all members of the UN.

BTW, MAD was a peace keeping idea between the US and USSR. Each side did not use nuclear weapons because they knew the other had enough weapons to destroy everything 2 or 3 times. The policy got us through the Cold War long enough to get us to Reagan. He started the SALT talks that ended up with an agreement to draw down stockpiles of nukes to only about 1500 per side and emphasized anti missile systems as a way for each side to guard against "mistake" launching by the other side.

Answer 3

@wwhitlock hence all those spy films, I guess, of that era

Answer 4

@wwhitlock I thought president Carter started SALT talks. Maybe I was asleep at the time.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks sort of "who goes first" ? I won't disarm until you do bluff. The era was a pretty tense time bearing in mind the "toys" the "superpowers" had to "play" with. Maybe one cop out clause in making it more bluster and bluff than actual threat was President Truman's ordering the nuclear bombing of the Islands of Japan - Hiroshma and Nagasaki.
Being an island nation, Japan, rather like "Bikini" sort of lends itself to that sort of testing/war ending.
Nuclear bombing Berlin or wherever on the mainland would contaminate. The Chernobyl reported nuclear meltdown is sort of an indication of why, IF you're going to nuclear bomb someone, BE careful. THAT feels to me like a contradiction in terms.

Answer 5

Thanks for the clarification @osprey. There was a flow to it. Presidents of both parties contributed to democracy's success over Soviet communism.