cold war

5. the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
8. a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started after the end of World War II in 1945 and lasted to 1991.
9. airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany
10. state is a form of government that combines the state leadership of a communist party
13. a pattern of competitive acquisition of military capability between two or more countries
14. Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do battle directly during the Cold War.

1. which posits that increases or decreases in democracy
2. two separate areas from the end of World War II
3. an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats."
4. is an international organization founded in 1945
6. Voting in an election and contacting our elected officials
7. geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism
11. provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development
12. a political and military alliance established in 1955