Cold War
Across
- 3. an economic system based on the idea that farms and businesses should be owned in common by the workers who do the labor.
- 5. this agreement banned nuclear testing in the air, the ocean, and outer space.
- 6. to declare to be blameworthy or evil.
- 9. an organization founded to preserve world peace by promoting international cooperation.
- 11. popularized term used by Winston Churchill to describe Soviet relations with Western powers.
- 12. the name of the Soviet intelligence agency.
- 13. took advantage of Americans' fears to gain political power.
- 17. stated one country’s fall into communism would precipitate neighboring countries to do the same.
- 18. to be most noticeable within a group.
- 19. an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the world’s nations
Down
- 1. soon became part of daily life.
- 2. the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information.
- 4. a U.S. aid plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War II
- 7. a president during the Cold War that gave a speech where he said the German phrase, “Ich bin sin Berliner.”
- 8. the only American civilians to be put to death for spying during the Cold War.
- 10. an economic system based on private ownership of farms and businesses.
- 11. to become involved in something in order to influence what happens.
- 14. ended when Khrushchev agreed to remove the missile bases in exchange for Kennedy's promise not to invade Cuba and to remove U.S. missile bases recently installed in Turkey.
- 15. the global struggle for power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union that followed World War II.
- 16. a war in which the superpowers backed different sides, which acted as substitutes (proxies) for the superpowers themselves.