Cold War

4. Communist leader of China who was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people during his rule
5. Military alliance originally established in 1949 to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II
7. A U.S. foreign policy aimed at checking the alleged expansionist intentions of the Soviet Union
12. What crisis occurred from October 16th 1962 to October 29th
14. Event in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
15. A period of intense anti-communism in the United States during the early 1950s
16. Created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
18. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945
19. 33rd president of the United States
20. Economic system based on private ownership, working hard, and rich getting richer

1. First named the European Recovery Program, but better known as
2. Countries subject to Soviet domination located on the western border of U.S.S.R
3. Proposed by Pres. Harry S. Truman to justify sending military aid to Greece and Turkey in the 1940s
6. Ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
8. more than 40 countries of the UN sent troops, equipment, or other aid to South Korea during this war
9. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states
10. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
11. When the cold war started
13. The secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
17. Economic system where the government decides how wealth is distributed