Cold War, Decolonization, & Globalization; 1900-Present Day

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Across
  1. 2. Chinese plan made by Mao Zedong; called for mandatory collectivization of agriculture
  2. 4. A disease that spreads through contaminated water, mainly affecting areas of poverty
  3. 9. Modifying cells or organisms to create better plants for farming
  4. 11. An substance that cures people of bacterial infection
  5. 12. Term that describes pollutants (Mainly CO2) that go into the atmosphere and trap heat, causing global warming
  6. 14. A policy made by the Soviets that said they would invade any country with any amount of communist uprising
  7. 16. Soviet policy that allowed more transparency in the political process, and allotted more freedoms to the public
  8. 18. Soviet policy that gave free market
  9. 19. Cause a worldwide scare with it's outbreak in West Africa
  10. 21. Spread by mosquitoes that mainly affects young African children
  11. 22. The closest the world got to nuclear war; When the soviets were going to put nukes close to the US
  12. 25. A disease that spreads through the exchange of bodily fluids; it weakens ones immune system
  13. 27. A plan developed by the US to fund development for affected countries after WW2; solidified the US into a superpower
  14. 29. First international attempt at reducing carbon emissions; kind of unsuccessful
  15. 30. A policy made by one of the presidents that said the US would enter countries to defend them from communism or the Soviets
Down
  1. 1. A metaphorical barrier made by the Soviet Union that sealed them off from the influence of the western world
  2. 3. An agreement in 2015 that 195 countries signed on to reduce carbon emissions, although the US pulled out in 2017
  3. 5. Nonrenewable source of energy that produces greenhouse gases
  4. 6. Rights every person possesses, such as freedom of expression
  5. 7. A possible long term solution to hunger, started with development of new seeds that produce higher yields
  6. 8. Protects people against viruses, eradicated Smallpox and fought against Polio and Measles
  7. 10. Japanese hand-drawn animations that are part of every expanding global culture
  8. 13. A war in which a country is supporting a group in another country so that they do no directly fight against another superpower
  9. 15. Breeding 2 types of plants to create a hybrid with better genes for farming
  10. 17. A treaty between the Soviet Union and 7 other Eastern Bloc countries; seen as the counterpart to NATO
  11. 20. A program the UN established to monitor human rights abuses of other countries
  12. 23. An acronym that described what would happen in the event of an all out nuclear war
  13. 24. Separated the Eastern and Western Bloc of Germany
  14. 26. An epidemic disease that spreads across the world
  15. 28. The idea that if communism took over one countries, the surrounding countries would also fall; scared the US into fighting in Vietnam