Chapter 7 Vocab

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Across
  1. 8. The period of political tension and military rivalry between the US and Soviet Union.
  2. 10. An American corporation that operated in Guatemala, particularly in the exportation of bananas.
  3. 12. US program to help rebuild Western Europe and stop communism after World War II.
  4. 14. A military alliance formed in 1949 to provide collective defense against the Soviet Union.
  5. 15. The country that fell to communism in 1949.
  6. 18. The policy of preventing the spread of communism.
  7. 19. Policy to provide economic aid to countries threatened by communism and Soviet expansionism.
Down
  1. 1. He served as the United States Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 - 1959.
  2. 2. National security policy of the United States that emphasized the use of nuclear weapon
  3. 3. The country where a CIA-backed coup overthrew a democratically-elected government in 1954.
  4. 4. The wall constructed in 1961 that separated East Germany from West Germany, serving as a physical and ideological barrier bet
  5. 5. A period of intense anti-communist suspicion and persecution in the United States in the early 1950s.
  6. 6. A group of countries formed in 1945 to work together and prevent war, that was involved in the early Cold War.
  7. 7. The competition between nations during the Cold War to acquire and develop weapons with immense destructive power.
  8. 9. The Soviet Union's alliance of Eastern European countries.
  9. 11. He emphasized the need to contain the spread of communism & Soviet aggression through deterrence and covert operatations.
  10. 13. The war that broke out on an Asian peninsula in 1950.
  11. 16. The ideological barrier that divided the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe from the rest of the world.
  12. 17. The idea that communism could spread from one country to another.