Cold War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. War between North and South Korea; ended in stalemate at the 38th parallel
  2. 9. The Soviet Union
  3. 10. Major confrontation that brought the US and USSR close to war over the presence of Soviet missiles in Cuba
  4. 12. Communist leader of China; took power in 1949
  5. 13. Fall of a noncommunist country to communism would cause the fall of other noncommunist countries
  6. 14. Increase in birth rate between 1946 and 1964
  7. 16. A state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
  8. 17. Political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries
  9. 18. a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons
  10. 19. U.S. foreign policy to prevent the spread of communism
  11. 20. October 4, 1957 Russia launched first artificial satellite into space
  12. 22. Military operation that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the blockade initiated by Stalin
  13. 24. Established 1958 for the research and development for the exploration of space
  14. 26. U.S.Government agency to gather intelligence and international security information from foreign countries
Down
  1. 1. Series of investigations and hearings to expose Communist in U.S. government; started by Senator Joseph McCarthy
  2. 2. Hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War
  3. 3. Failed attack launched by the CIA to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power
  4. 5. provided World War II veterans with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing
  5. 6. Stalin prevented supplies from reaching West Berlin
  6. 7. U.S. provide political, military, and economic assistance to all nations under threat of communist takeover
  7. 8. A political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas during the Cold War
  8. 11. American spy plane was shot down over Soviet airspace
  9. 15. U.S. provided economic assistance to war-torn countries in Europe after WWII in order to create stable conditions in the West
  10. 21. Defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe
  11. 23. Authorized funds to build 41,000 miles of highway consisting of multilane expressways that would connect the nation's major cities
  12. 25. Barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin