Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. an economic system in which land, factories, and other resources are owned by individuals instead of the government. In this system, the prices of things we buy are decided by the people who sell them and not by the government.
  2. 4. help that is given to someone in need
  3. 7. an agreement, usually between two countries
  4. 8. to stop working or end suddenly; fail
  5. 9. weapons
  6. 12. the use of a country or region's wealth and resources
  7. 13. an action that is meant to change what is happening
  8. 14. the represent something or stand for something as a symbol
  9. 16. to help something grow, increase, or move forward
  10. 17. the name for modern-day Russia when the country was ruled by the Communist Party
  11. 18. international military alliance between countries in North America and Europe created after World War II
  12. 20. an economic ideology derived from the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which all factories, farms, and other valuable things are owned and controlled by the government
  13. 24. The best teacher you've ever had. period.
  14. 28. the condition of stress, strain or pressure
  15. 29. that state of being the best or most powerful
  16. 30. the act of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others
Down
  1. 1. ___ policy: a government's strategy for dealing with other nations
  2. 2. a strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion. This policy meant the United States would support any nation facing an external or internal communist threat.
  3. 3. the practice of negotiating between nations or governments
  4. 5. ____ Pact military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe
  5. 6. an armed rebellion against one’s own government
  6. 8. to use power to manage or command
  7. 10. state of being the best or most powerful
  8. 11. _____ Bloc the United States and its allies during the Cold War
  9. 15. ____ Bloc the Soviet Union and its allies during the Cold War
  10. 16. having to do with government
  11. 19. the condition of stress, strain or pressure
  12. 21. The ___ Conference was a meeting of the Big Three in February 1945,to decide what would happen to Europe and Germany after WW2.
  13. 22. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view
  14. 23. to hold within something; restrict
  15. 25. having to do with soldiers or armies
  16. 26. an economic system in which all of the economic decisions are made by the government
  17. 27. a statement that someone will harm or punish another person or group