Cold War Key Terms

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Across
  1. 4. A program that offered massive financial aid to help rebuild Western Europe
  2. 5. Something built around West Berlin to prevent East Germans from escaping into West Germany.
  3. 6. The idea that if one country falls to communism, it will cause other countries to fall to communism.
  4. 7. An alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries
  5. 9. A competition between the US and USSR to build more nuclear weapons
  6. 11. The communist dictator of Cuba
  7. 12. The ________ War was when the communist north successfully conquered the south.
  8. 14. The ________ War was when the communist north failed to conquer the south.
  9. 16. A period when Mao Zedong empowered China's youth to destroy the old culture of China.
  10. 17. The dictator of communist China
Down
  1. 1. A competition between the US and USSR about sending people into outer space.
  2. 2. A 13-day standoff between the US and Soviet Union when nuclear missiles were discovered in Cuba
  3. 3. The idea that the US and USSR had so many nuclear weapons that war between them would lead to the destruction of both countries.
  4. 8. A failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles
  5. 10. The world's first satellite launched into space, built by the Soviet Union
  6. 13. an alliance of capitalist nations in Western Europe and North America
  7. 15. Mao's plan to transform China into an industrial power by combining small farms and building steel in backyard furnaces
  8. 18. This country was split into a capitalist west and communist east.