Cold war

2. period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
4. The bill created a 41,000-mile “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways”
5. when one nation falls to communism the impact is such as to weaken the resistance of other countries
8. ideological barrier erected by the U.S.S.R after World War II to seal off itself
11. ________ was the first artificial Earth satellite
13. African-American music that was popular during the 1940-50's
14. a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
15. 35th President of the United States

1. 34th president of the United States
3. a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
6. the_______ helped to end the Cold War
7. 33rd president of the United States
9. The _______ was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe
10. competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet
12. created to assist American military veterans