cold war

2. A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
3. A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
4. Airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
6. Name for the u.S. and Soviet Union after World War II because we were the two strongest countries in the world.
8. US engaged in military and peacekeeping interventions
11. An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
12. The Eastern European nations that remained under the control of the Soviet Union after the Second World War.
14. On September 2, 1945 the formal peace treaty was signed on board the American Battle ship Missouri
16. Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms
18. a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
19. A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

1. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
5. the proposition that when the two nations possess the ability to inflict nuclear damage on each other, then neither nation is likely to use its nuclear weapons in the first place
7. a state of tension between two superpowers with no actual fighting; power struggle between the soviet union and the United States after world war II
9. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
10. japan was defeated but they wouldn't surrender. Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
13. the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety), pushing dangerous situations to the edge of disaster rather than conceding
15. A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries.
17. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
18. the Cold War if either US or the USSR was hit with a nuclear weapons they would respond with the same. The result in the total destruction of both the attacker and the defender.