Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
  2. 9. Communists in North Vietnam
  3. 11. Built in Berlin to keep citizens from escaping to the West
  4. 12. Stop the spread of communism
  5. 13. Dividing line between North and South Korea
  6. 17. War that ended in a lost for the US
  7. 18. 1949 Alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nations involved. "An attack against one shall be considered as an attack on them all"
  8. 21. Spending money to stop communism
  9. 25. An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
  10. 27. U.S. Senator who claimed that their were Soviet spies and Communists within the government but had no evidence.
  11. 28. Standoff between John F. Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in October 1962 over Soviet plans to install nuclear weapons in Cuba.
Down
  1. 1. Communist leader of Cuba
  2. 2. President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S involvement in the vietnam war, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces
  3. 3. a list circulated among employers containing the names of persons who should not be hired
  4. 5. Communist leader of North Vietnam
  5. 6. Containment policy where the US rebuilds Europe
  6. 7. The Allies response to the Soviets blockade of West Berlin
  7. 8. Communists in South Vietnam
  8. 10. A massive, coordinated Communist assault against more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
  9. 14. Containment war that ended in a tie
  10. 15. First man-made satellite put into orbit by the USSR. This caused fear in the US that the Soviets had passed them by in science & technology and the arms race.
  11. 16. If one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
  12. 19. A congressional committee created to search out disloyal Americans & Communists.
  13. 20. Idea that both sides would face certain destruction in a nuclear war
  14. 22. The competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence over the world from 1945-1991.
  15. 23. The principle of not backing down in a crisis, even if it meant taking the country to the brink of war.
  16. 24. Disaster where the CIA trained Cubans to invade Cuba
  17. 26. Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and atomic weapons