Cold War Concepts

4. Mao's plan to transform China to a Socialist society.
6. The economic plan to help European nations becoming democratic.
8. The Soviet leader after World War II.
10. An alliance between the Allies created after World War II.
11. The island that the Chinese Nationalist fled to after losing power.
13. Conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba.
14. Conflicts during the Cold War that were fought in other countries and supported by the U.S. and Soviet Union.
15. The physical barrier that divided east and west Germany after World War II.
16. Shortly after WWII, the ___ bomb that was 10x more powerful than the atomic bomb.
18. To go to the verge of war.
21. An indirect, global conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union lasting 40 years.
24. An economic policy based on the elimination of private ownership.
25. The U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
26. The U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1. Peace-keeping organization that was created after WWII.
2. This nation's civil war led to a permanent division, creating two separate nations.
3. The symbolic division of Europe representing the democratic west and the communist east.
5. Alliance among the Soviet Union and satellite nations in response to NATO.
7. The U.S. plan to train soldiers in Vietnam so the U.S. could exit the war.
9. Harry Truman's plan to support countries that are fighting communism.
12. The U.S. supported this nation in a very controversial war.
17. The belief that if one nation fell to communism, others would soon follow.
19. Border nations between Western Europe and the Soviet Union.
20. The competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to achieve spaceflight.
22. The competition between U.S. and Soviet Union to create nuclear weapons.
23. A U.S. mission to provide resources to the people in east Berlin by plane.