Cold War Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. war the state of diplomatic hostility between the Untied States and the soviet union in the decades following WWII
  2. 8. a policy of threating to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
  3. 9. missile crisis a direct and dangerous conformation between the US and Soviet Union
  4. 10. curtain during the Cold War the boundary separating the Communist nations of the Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic of Western Europe
  5. 12. blockade an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability o the US, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin
  6. 13. wars proposed US strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attack
  7. 14. nation an international peacekeeping organization founded 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
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  1. 1. a US foreign policy adopted by the President Harry Truman in the late 1940's in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communisms by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
  2. 3. plan a US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII
  3. 4. a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during the presidency Richard Nixon
  4. 5. Nations, the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the US and the Soviet Union
  5. 6. theory the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control
  6. 7. doctrine accounted by President Harry Truman in 1947 a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threated by internal or external opponents
  7. 11. pact a military alliances formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern countries
  8. 15. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the US, and Canada