Cold War

6. Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
7. Was initially a non-physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
10. Is the ostensible escalation of threats to achieve one's aims.
12. Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that were aimed at curtailing the manufacture of strategic missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
13. The line on the map that marks the border between North Korea and South Korea, established in 1945 after the Second World War.
14. To define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc.
15. Was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

1. Was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
2. The name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M.
3. An ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty over its homeland.
4. An intergovernmental military alliance between 30 North American and European countries.
5. Was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
8. Is an international organization created in 1945, shortly after the end of WWII.
9. Was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.
11. Was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland.