Chapter 26 Key Terms, The Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. Harry Truman’s 1947 speech before a joint session of congress, calling the U.S. to take a leadership role in the world, and declared that the U.S. would support nations threatened by communism
  2. 4. The competition after WWII between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union
  3. 7. Intercontinental ballistic missile
  4. 9. A 1956 term used by secretary of state John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests
  5. 11. Program of American economic assistance to Western Europe, announced in 1947
  6. 12. American policy of resisting the further expansion of communism around the world
  7. 13. The first artificial satellite to orbit earth, launched by the Soviets in 1957
  8. 14. conflict over the future of the Korean peninsula, fought between 1950 and 1953 and ending in a stalemate
  9. 16. Established in 1938 to investigate disloyalty in the United States
  10. 18. A country dominated politically and economically by another nation, especially by the soviet union during the cold war
  11. 21. Military alliance between the Soviet Union and the Nations of Eastern Europe, formed in 1955
  12. 22. A 1960 incident in which the Soviet military used a guided missile to shoot down an American U-2 spy plane over soviet territory
  13. 23. 1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved
Down
  1. 1. Moving of supplies into West Berlin by American and British planes during a soviet blockade from 1948-1949
  2. 3. Term to describe McCarthy’s anti-communist smear tactics
  3. 5. Latitudinal line that divided North and South Korea at approximately the midpoint of the peninsula
  4. 6. The principle of mutual military assistance among nations
  5. 8. List that circulated among employers, beginning in 1947, containing names of persons that should not be hired
  6. 10. The military establishment as it developed links to the corporate and scientific communities, employing a 3.5 million Americans by 1960
  7. 15. The struggle to gain weapons’ superiority
  8. 16. Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding communist influence in Hollywood
  9. 17. The policy of making the military power of the United States so strong that no enemy would attack for fear of relation
  10. 19. Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Communist and non-Communist life
  11. 20. Passed by congress in 1952, this law reaffirmed the quota system that had been established for each country in 1924