Cold War Crossword

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  1. 2. U.S. Senator from Wisconsin who led a campaign of anti-communist hysteria and persecution during the early Cold War period, known as McCarthyism.
  2. 3. of geopolitical tension and rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies, lasting from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.
  3. 5. A country politically and economically dependent on another nation, particularly used to describe Eastern European countries under Soviet influence during the Cold War.
  4. 8. Chinese nationalist leader who fought against the communists during the Chinese Civil War and later led the Republic of China (Taiwan) until his death in 1975.
  5. 10. Term used to describe the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence, particularly associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist crusade.
  6. 11. Conflict fought from 1950 to 1953 between North Korea, supported by China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, supported by the United Nations and primarily the United States.
  7. 12. American citizens convicted and executed in 1953 for espionage-related charges, accused of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  8. 16. American pilot shot down and captured by the Soviet Union in 1960 while flying a reconnaissance mission over Soviet territory in a U-2 spy plane.
  9. 21. U.S. foreign policy announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, pledging to support nations threatened by communist expansionism, particularly in Greece and Turkey.
  10. 23. Foreign policy strategy involving the willingness to risk war in order to protect national interests, particularly associated with the Cold War era.
  11. 24. American government official accused of being a Soviet spy during the Cold War, convicted of perjury in 1950 for lying about his communist affiliations.
  12. 26. Line of latitude that divided North and South Korea following World War II and became the de facto border between the two countries after the Korean War.
  13. 27. Island nation off the southeastern coast of China, formerly known as Formosa, where the nationalist government led by Chiang Kai-shek fled after losing the Chinese Civil War to the communists.
  14. 28. Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the ideological and physical division of Europe between Western capitalist democracies and Eastern communist bloc countries during the Cold War.
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  1. 1. Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to the establishment of NATO.
  2. 3. U.S. government agency responsible for gathering intelligence and conducting covert operations abroad, established in 1947.
  3. 4. U.S. foreign policy initiative announced by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957, pledging military and economic aid to Middle Eastern countries threatened by communism.
  4. 6. Military alliance formed in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to counter Soviet aggression and promote collective defense.
  5. 7. Allied operation in 1948-1949 to airlift supplies to West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city in an attempt to force Western withdrawal.
  6. 9. House Un-American Activities Committee, a congressional committee established to investigate communist infiltration and subversion in the United States during the Cold War.
  7. 13. U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for his staunch anti-communism and advocacy of brinkmanship in foreign policy.
  8. 14. Chinese communist revolutionary and leader of the People's Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
  9. 15. Group of Hollywood film industry professionals who were blacklisted and jailed for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before HUAC about their alleged communist affiliations.
  10. 17. 34th President of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961, known for his leadership during World War II and his policy of containment during the Cold War.
  11. 18. U.S. foreign policy strategy during the Cold War aimed at preventing the spread of communism, particularly by confronting Soviet expansionism through diplomatic, economic, and military means.
  12. 19. Soviet leader who succeeded Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, known for his policy of de-Stalinization and for leading the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  13. 20. a thermonuclear weapon with much greater destructive power than atomic bombs, developed during the Cold War arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  14. 22. incident: Incident in 1960 in which the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 spy plane, causing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  15. 25. List of individuals or organizations deemed to be subversive or disloyal, particularly with regard to communist sympathies, resulting in their exclusion from employment or other opportunities.