Cold War Vocab

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Across
  1. 9. Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
  2. 10. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
  3. 12. Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
  4. 13. an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
  5. 15. War that is fought with threats, lies and propaganda
  6. 16. a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership
  7. 17. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
  8. 18. accused people of being communists and "blacklisted" them
Down
  1. 1. treaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
  2. 2. the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control
  3. 3. A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
  4. 4. the city of Berlin between the capitalist West and Communist East
  5. 5. A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
  6. 6. The act of accusing people of disloyalty and communism
  7. 7. Wall
  8. 8. countries that are involved in large scale production
  9. 11. a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism.
  10. 12. 30 million war babies were born between 1942 and 1950.
  11. 14. Organization including: Australia, Great Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the United States, for collective defense against aggression in southeastern Asia and the southwestern Pacific
  12. 16. Type of economy were there is private ownership of industry and some people earn more than others.