Cold War

2. How many years did the Cold War last?
6. Who wrote Communist Manifesto?
8. This phrase means a competition to develop and manufacture more and more powerful weapons.
10. This is a conflict between nations, or within a single country, in which superpowers backed opposite sides without fighting each other directly.
13. In 1938, Congress formed this to investigate organizations suspected of being a danger to the country.
15. What is the USSR?
16. This is an economic system based on private ownership of farms and businesses.
17. What does the A stand for in NATO?
19. In 1961, East Germany and the Soviet Union tried to stem the tide of East Germans fleeing to West Berlin by putting up this wall between the two parts of the city.
20. This organization formed a more permanent alliance for ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada’s mutual protection.

1. This is an economic system based on the idea that farms and businesses should be owned by the workers who do the labor.
3. The senator’s practice of publicly accusing people of being disloyal with little to no evidence became known as this.
4. This is a U.S. aid plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War ll.
5. This ended when Khrushchev agreed to remove the missile bases in exchange for Kennedy’s promise not to invade Cuba and to remove US missile bases recently installed in Turkey.
7. This called for military cooperation among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and East Germany.
9. This word means the act of getting or obtaining something.
11. These people were arrested and charged with passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
12. The United States adopted a military policy known as this.
14. Who was president at the beginning of the Cold War?
18. This is the global struggle for power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union that followed World War ll.