Chapter 26: Cold War Conflicts (808-833)

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Across
  1. 7. Policy of the Truman administration to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries.
  2. 8. A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
  3. 10. Leader of the communist party in China.
  4. 11. The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII.
  5. 13. A thermonuclear weapon much more powerful than the atomic bomb.
  6. 15. A U.S. policy of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened with communist takeovers, specifically Greece and Turkey.
  7. 17. A U.S. program of supplying economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII.
  8. 18. A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city.
  9. 19. The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression.
Down
  1. 1. A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, in which the United States fought on the side of the South Koreans and China fought on the side of the North Koreans.
  2. 2. A phrase used by Winston Churchill to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe.
  3. 3. A list of about 500 actors, writers, producers, and directors who were not allowed to work on Hollywood films because of their alleged Communist connections.
  4. 4. The attacks by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s.
  5. 5. Ten witnesses from the film industry who refused to cooperate with the HUAC's investigation of Communist influence in Hollywood.
  6. 6. Chiang and the remnants of the Chinese Nationalist government fled to this island after they had been defeated in the Chinese Civil War.
  7. 9. An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development.
  8. 12. Countries in Eastern Europe that were dominated by the Soviet Union: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, & Poland.
  9. 14. A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada.
  10. 16. North and South Korea remain divided along the 38th __________.
  11. 20. A congressional committee that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the U.S. government in the years following WWII.