Cold War: Rising Tension
Across
- 1. Doctrine that proclaimed it was the duty of socialist countries to intervene in other countries where socialism was threatened.
- 5. The crisis in which Stalin prevented Western powers from entering West Berlin through East Germany.
- 6. A region near one superpower that was deemed untouchable by the other--Cuba was an American example of this.
- 7. The program started when Khrushchev took power.
- 9. For fifteen months, America ran this operation into Berlin.
- 10. American Secretary of State who withdrew support for the Aswan Dam.
- 11. Thanks to Soviet absence, the UN voted to commit troops to this war.
- 16. The six Soviet controlled Eastern Bloc countries were referred to as _________ _______.
- 18. Post-WWII, two ideologically divided superpowers emerged, resulting in a _______ world.
- 20. 1960 spyplane incident.
- 21. America's policy to prevent the spread of communism.
- 22. Reform movement that tried to humanize socialism.
- 26. Czech leader during Cold War.
- 27. This doctrine promised USA troops would intervene in the Middle East to halt the spread of communism.
- 28. Leader of corrupt 1950s Cuban regime.
- 30. Polish leader during Cold War.
- 31. This doctrine has been described as America's drawing a 'line in the sand' against the spread of communism.
- 33. This plan promised to give economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild their autonomy.
- 34. Strategic theory that prevented the world from slipping into nuclear war.
- 35. This type of area was created to prevent an immediate attack upon a superpower's home country.
- 36. Khrushchev's solution to East Germans fleeing to West Germany.
Down
- 1. Failed American invasion of Cuba.
- 2. Khrushchev's commitment to compete globally with the USA in a non-military manner.
- 3. The fear of communism spread by HUAC was known as _________.
- 4. Incident that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war.
- 7. Theory that described American's fear of the countries falling one by one to communism.
- 8. Hungarian leader who tried to leave the Warsaw Pact.
- 12. Leader of the Cuban Revolution.
- 13. Egyptian President during Cold War.
- 14. In 1946, Churchill claimed this had fallen across Eastern Europe
- 15. A surprise nuclear attack meant to disable an enemy.
- 17. First artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 19. First human to orbit the Earth.
- 23. This group of four former WWII allies governed the divided Germany.
- 24. America's peacetime military commitment to Europe.
- 25. First elected chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 29. Powerful, long-range weapons utilizing rocket technology.
- 32. American General in command of UN forces in Korea.