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