Cold War Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Congressional committee that investigated possible subversive activities within the United States.
  2. 3. war War fought to achieve only specific goals.
  3. 7. retaliation Policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression.
  4. 9. zedong A Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the Peoples Republic of China
  5. 11. Policy of keeping communism contained within its existing borders.
  6. 14. Government agency that coordinates U.S. efforts in space.
  7. 15. Act Law that made it unlawful to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the United States government.
  8. 17. race Contest in which nations compete to build more powerful weapons.
  9. 19. airlift Program in which U.S. and British pilots flew supplies to West Berlin during a Soviet blockage.
Down
  1. 1. pact Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
  2. 4. Negative catchword for extreme, reckless charges of disloyalty.
  3. 5. doctrin President Truman's promise to help nations struggling against communist movements.
  4. 6. Intelligence-gathering organization.
  5. 8. doctrine Policy of President Eisenhower that states that the Unite States would use force to help any nation threatened by communism.
  6. 10. Military alliance formed to counter Soviet expansion.
  7. 11. war Worldwide rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  8. 12. To place a resource under government control.
  9. 13. krushchev A Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
  10. 16. curtain Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the border between the Soviet satellite states and Western Europe.
  11. 18. scare Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.