Cold War Beginnings Quiz #2

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Across
  1. 4. Before leaving office, President Eisenhower warned against a military industrial complex -- in other words, a dangerous relationship that had formed between the military and the _____ industry.
  2. 7. To counter the blockade and to keep West Berlin from turning to communism, the U.S. started an 11-month _____.
  3. 8. The nickname of the imaginary line between the communist east and the democratic-capitalist west.
  4. 11. After U.S. financial aid was squandered by the Nationalists and _____ fell to communism, the United States upped their anti-communist stance and efforts.
  5. 12. The U.S. policy aimed to help out countries economically with $ aid to encourage them away from communism; the other "half of the walnut"
  6. 14. The 2nd Red Scare seemed justified when the likes of Alger Hiss and the married couple the _____ were convicted of espionage.
  7. 16. The first satellite to successfully orbit the earth by the Soviet Union -- sent the U.S. into a panic, fearful we were falling behind.
  8. 17. Eager to separate themselves from communists, many _____ made decisions to enable screening of their employees, sign oaths of loyalty, and even expel groups who refused to remove Communists leaders.
  9. 18. After the CIA leaked Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing some of the harsher communist policies to _____, a rebellion started that would soon be crushed by the Soviet Union.
  10. 20. The U.S. _____ was used to influence and/or thwart developing nations (i.e. Iran, Guatemala) away from communist governments/influence through covert operations.
  11. 22. The Red Scare infiltrated out culture to the point that schools were building bomb shelters, having duck and cover drills -- but sadly it would provide no real protection against the deadly _____.
  12. 24. Under FBI Director _____'s leadership, HUAC was created, agents sent to infiltrate communists groups, and thousands of telephones were wiretapped.
Down
  1. 1. The U.S. policy committing to the use of military force to protect a country or nation from communist influence or invasion.
  2. 2. President Truman's _____ was meant to calm people's fears and suspicions as it was meant to screen all federal employees as a show of transparency, but it actually made things worse.
  3. 3. After the other 3 merged their zones, the Soviet Union responded with the _____.
  4. 5. The South Korean/UN forces looked to achieve victory, driving the North Korean forces back to the Yalu River, until at which point the ______ came to their aid.
  5. 6. The _____ ended close to where it started, at the 38th parallel known as the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone).
  6. 9. Senator _____ made a name and reputation for himself by ruthlessly investigating suspected government officials with communists ties; he claimed he had a list of 205 of them
  7. 10. Alliance created to protect against a communist invasion or attack.
  8. 12. In 1946 American cryptographers cracked the Soviet spy code, allowing them to read 3,000 messages between _____ and the U.S. -- it was called Project Venona.
  9. 13. After it was known that the Soviet Union had obtained the information on the ______ through espionage, this effectively began the 2nd Red Scare.
  10. 15. President Eisenhower thought that the British had made a ["muck of things"] with the fight over the _____, as Egypt ended up turning to the Soviet Union for aid.
  11. 19. In 1953, the more powerful _____ bomb was tested in the Soviet Union.
  12. 21. U.S. policy of keeping communism within its current borders and not allowing it to spread.
  13. 23. After WWII, Germany was divided into 4 zones, each controlled by the Soviet Union, the U.S., Great Britain and _____.