Cold War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. ______ Plan- US program of economic aid to help Europe after WW2
  2. 5. conflict without physical battles but threats are made on both sides, between USA and USSR
  3. 6. Truman ______ - US plan to provide help to countries threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
  4. 8. the relaxation of tensions between the Cold war
  5. 11. a proxy war fought between North and South Korea
  6. 12. a US policy of slowing or stopping the spread of communism
  7. 13. the military alliance formed in answer to NATO by the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.
  8. 15. US President from 1945-1953
  9. 16. complete and total control by the government
  10. 17. Concrete barrier separating East and West Germany
  11. 18. Alliance between US, England, France, Canada, and other Western Countries
Down
  1. 1. Prime minister of Great Britain
  2. 2. ruler of China that started the "Great Leap Forward"
  3. 3. Communist leader of USSR after Lenin
  4. 4. collapse of colonial empires.
  5. 7. Practically all colonies in Africa and Asia gained ______.
  6. 9. political barrier that isolated the people of Eastern Europe after WW2, separating communist countries from non-communist countries.
  7. 10. a war fought by smaller countries that are being influenced or helped by larger more powerful countries
  8. 14. the _______ theory- if one country falls to communism then the possibility of the surrounding countries falling is higher.