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