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