Chapter 17 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A policy of lessening Cold War tensions
  2. 4. A line that crosses Korea at 38 degrees north latitude, Japanese troops surrendered to Soviet forces
  3. 6. The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
  4. 7. Turned to the Communist for help in his struggle
  5. 14. A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European Countries
  6. 16. World Consisted of developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with either superpower
  7. 17. A third force of independent countries
  8. 19. A policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism
  9. 20. Assumed the presidency, committed to stopping the spread of communism
  10. 21. Doctrine Truman's support for countries that rejected communism
  11. 22. A fiercely Anti-Communist U.S. president took office in 1981.
  12. 24. A young lawyer
  13. 25. A collective farm on which a great number of people work and live
  14. 29. A 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
  15. 31. Replaced Brindranship
  16. 32. An International peacekeeping organizations founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.
  17. 34. Zedong The leader the communists had a stronghold in North Western China
  18. 36. Militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution
Down
  1. 1. Young Lawyer led that revolution
  2. 3. War The State of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following the World War Two
  3. 5. He quickly adopt repressive domestic policies
  4. 8. Began to gain Strength in the South
  5. 9. Spurred his tape recorded messages, Iranions rioted in every major city in late 1978.
  6. 10. Became the dominant Soviet Leader
  7. 11. A policy of threatening go to War in response to any enemy aggression
  8. 12. Plan A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War Two .It also provided food,machinery,and other materials to rebuild Western Europe.
  9. 13. United States and the Soviet Union Leader
  10. 15. The United States and Britain, participated under the command of a General
  11. 18. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, The United States, and Canada
  12. 23. Jieshi Dominated South Western China
  13. 26. It allowed the U.S. troops to gradually pull out, while the South Vietnamese increased their combat role
  14. 27. During the Cold War the boundary separating the communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.
  15. 28. In the early 1960's, the Cuban Missile Crisis Made the Superpowers use of nuclear weapons a real possibility
  16. 30. Set up a brutal communist government under the leadership of Pol Pot
  17. 33. Anti Communist Leader
  18. 35. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT treaty