Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. parallel ​the line on the map that marks the border between North Korea and South Korea, established in 1945 after the Second World War
  2. 5. Curtain 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
  3. 7. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide security against the Soviet Union.
  4. 8. Wall separated the democratic western countries and the communist countries of Eastern Europe throughout the Cold War
  5. 9. easing of strained relations, especially political, by verbal communication
  6. 10. Doctrine The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose purpose was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
  7. 11. practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict
  8. 13. an ideology and movement that promotes interest of a particular nation especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty over its homeland
Down
  1. 2. world- countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc
  2. 3. Nations intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a center for harmonizing the actions of nations
  3. 4. a United States policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
  4. 6. Plan The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe
  5. 8. Airlift United States and United Kingdom airlifted food and fuel to Berlin from Allied air bases in western Germany
  6. 12. Pact a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
  7. 14. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War superpowers, on the issue of arms control