Cold War

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  1. 6. Theory - was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism
  2. 7. chi minh - was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam.
  3. 8. - Was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s and 1990s
  4. 11. - is an alert state used by the United States Armed Forces
  5. 14. - was a Soviet statesman who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War as the First Secretary of the Communist Party.
  6. 17. - is the practice in the United States of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  7. 19. - 1957, the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite
  8. 21. Charlie - was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War.
  9. 22. - the principal policy making committee of a communist party.
  10. 23. - was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989
  11. 24. - was a Soviet politician of Ukrainian citizenship, who led the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 as the General Secretary
  12. 26. curtain - was the name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1992
  13. 29. Missile crisis - Also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  14. 30. party - is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.
  15. 32. - was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to journey into outer space
  16. 35. francis powers - was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency
  17. 36. zedong - as a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China
  18. 37. pact - known as the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw
  19. 39. race - was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States
  20. 40. Assured Destruction - is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
  21. 42. - was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister
  22. 43. - has several general and specific meanings. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency" since at least the end of the eighteenth century
  23. 44. wall - was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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  1. 1. doctrine - was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  2. 2. War - Was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950
  3. 3. - a list of people or groups regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and often marked down for punishment or exclusion.
  4. 4. - is a Russian and formerly Soviet politician. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party
  5. 5. - the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  6. 6. and cover - is a civil defense social guidance film that is often popularly mischaracterized as propaganda
  7. 9. race - the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.
  8. 10. - a very powerful and influential nation
  9. 11. - the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
  10. 12. - is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda
  11. 13. War - known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War.
  12. 15. phone - is a "confidence building measure" and communications system designed to decrease tensions and prevent accidental nuclear war by providing direct contact between the leaders of the United States and Russia.
  13. 16. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  14. 18. state - is a state that is economically, politically, or militarily subordinate to another more powerful stat
  15. 20. - was a socialist union in Eurasia that existed from 22 December 1922 to 26 December 1991
  16. 21. - a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
  17. 25. - a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
  18. 27. - s an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe
  19. 28. shelter - a building or other structure designed to protect people from radioactive fallout after a nuclear explosion.
  20. 31. plan - was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion
  21. 33. - is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program
  22. 34. - The political and economic theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  23. 38. - was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until 1974, the only president to resign the office
  24. 41. -
  25. 45. - Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR