APWH Final Exam Review - Spring 2022

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Across
  1. 2. An intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries.
  2. 5. A Palestinian Sunni-Islamic fundamentalist but pragmatic, militant, and nationalist organization.
  3. 8. African American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.(INITIALS)
  4. 9. The Soviet response to NATO.
  5. 10. A Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China.
  6. 13. An intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.
  7. 14. A thermonuclear weapon capable of mass destruction.
  8. 16. The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
  9. 18. Led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.
  10. 19. an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia.
  11. 20. A non-literal barrier separating the Communist, Eastern European countries from the Democratic, Western European countries.
Down
  1. 1. Geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. Created in an effort to stop the spread of communism.
  2. 3. The first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the USSR on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
  3. 4. A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
  4. 6. A war instigated by a major power which does not itself become involved.
  5. 7. This PLAN, passed in 1948 provided foreign aid to Western Europe.
  6. 11. 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president.
  7. 12. nickname of the three allied powers in WWII.
  8. 15. A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
  9. 17. Conference in which Allied leaders discussed the fate of defeated Germany, the ongoing war in the Pacific, and the formation of the United Nations.