8th Grade
Across
- 2. the Soviet block response to NATO
- 6. a town or small city within commuting, or easy travel distance to a large city
- 8. a policy of working or cooperating with other nations; opposite of isolationism
- 11. a culture that has different values than the established society or main culture
- 12. a movement for racial equality in the US
- 15. a policy that relaxes tensions between nations
Down
- 1. a US policy to help contain communism
- 3. A war during the Cold War in Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism; the US lost this one
- 4. a time when the USSR stationed missiles in Cuba at the US; ultimately removed
- 5. A war during the Cold War in Korea to prevent the spread of communism
- 7. a war about different ideologies
- 9. the act or process of keeping something within certain limits (like stopping communism from spreading)
- 10. a post WW2 ideological boundary between "free" countries and communist countries
- 13. a US plan to provide aid for Europe to rebuild while also helping the US economy
- 14. The North Atlantic Treay Organization; an alliance