Cold War Review

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Across
  1. 2. The Communist North Koreans invaded South Korea. The US, led by MacArthur, successfully helped the South Koreans fight the USSR backed North.
  2. 4. Began with Senator Joseph McCarthy who used false accusations of communism to promote his own career. It helped intensify the fear of Communism
  3. 6. This act limited the power of the federal government. It limits the President’s ability to send troops abroad into combat.
  4. 8. The Soviet Union claimed to be building soccer fields in Cuba, but was actually giving them missiles. Because of the closeness between the US and Cuba, this freaked the US out. After JFK blockades Cuba, the USSR removed missiles from Cuba and in exchange the US removes its missiles from Turkey.
  5. 9. LBJ purposefully put a ship in the Gulf to be attacked by North Vietnam. This allows the US to “take any necessary measures to avoid another attack” aka war.
  6. 10. The intense fear of communism that led to the Palmer Raids and false arrests.
  7. 12. The first places the Truman Doctrine was applied
  8. 13. The training of South Vietnamese troops so the US could get out of the Vietnam War
  9. 14. The US promised to help Cuban rebels overthrow Castro. However the US did not give the promised level of support and it failed, making the US look like a fool.
  10. 15. The warming of relations between the US and the USSR
  11. 18. An alliance the USSR created in response to NATO. No longer exists.
  12. 19. The first satellite launched into space. Built by the Soviets, it freaked out Americans who thought the USSR had become technologically superior. This created an emphasis on education and started the Space Race.
  13. 20. JFK’s idea that if one country falls to communism those around it would follow. It is how he justified sending advisors to Vietnam
  14. 21. The US policy of the containment of communism. Initiated after the USSR expanded communism to the Satellite Nations.
Down
  1. 1. a military alliance the US originally created to oppose the USSR. It is still in existence.
  2. 3. The Viet Cong was attempting to overthrow the US-backed South Vietnamese government
  3. 5. The warming of relations between the US and China. Began because of Ping-Pong Diplomacy
  4. 7. The US drops supplies on West Berlin after Stalin imposes a blockade. The airlift continues everyday until blockade was lifted
  5. 11. Exposed the extent of US actions in Vietnam
  6. 16. Extended the Truman Doctrine to apply to the Middle East
  7. 17. The US gives aid to help rebuild war-torn Europe after WWII in hopes it will prevent communism from spreading there