APUSH Unit 8 Cold War Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Example: Wars influenced by the US and USSR in Vietnam and Korea
  2. 4. Term used by Winston Churchill in describing the growing ideological divide between Western and Eastern Europe
  3. 6. Space administration created to advance space technology during the Space Race.
  4. 7. Plan devised by President Truman that committed over $10 billion to rebuilding Western Europe after WWII and preventing communism.
  5. 10. Term used to describe the actions of Joseph McCarthy in spurring the Second Red Scare, in which he claimed to possess a list of government officials associated with the Communist Party.
  6. 12. Technique used by Nixon with the purpose of relaxing tension between world powers during the Cold War
  7. 13. Negotiations between USSR and the US to limit the number of newly created nuclear weapons, each side agreed to limit strategic ballistic missile launchers.
  8. 14. Organization founded to provide Arab oil-producing nations greater leverage when dealing with US and Western oil companies
  9. 16. Coordinated military attack by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam meant to suppress American involvement in the Vietnam War
  10. 18. Term used to describe the potential dangers of communism in which a communist takeover in one nation would lead to the spread of communism in neighboring states
  11. 19. Technique proposed by Nixon to limit American influence in Vietnam through the training of Vietnamese forces and provision of resources.
  12. 20. Term used to describe the tense nature of conflict between the US and USSR, in which both countries continued to increase their nuclear arsenal.
Down
  1. 2. Name of the first Soviet satellite launched during the Space Race
  2. 3. Strategic foreign policy utilized by the US during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism
  3. 5. Organization of governments of typically newly independent countries in which they did not develop alliances with Western or Soviet blocs
  4. 8. Crisis that erupted after Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal, led to diplomatic and economic pressure by the US
  5. 9. Organization formed in 1949 including US, Canada, and most of Western Europe, USSR responded with the Warsaw Pact
  6. 11. Doctrine issued by President Truman which declared that the US would provide aid to countries in order to prevent communist infiltration.
  7. 15. Russian word translating to "restructuring," used to describe reforms proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev nearing the end of the Cold War
  8. 17. Nickname of President Reagans plan to research, develop, and develop a system which could destroy nuclear missiles in space