Cold War Vocabulary
Across
- 5. The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits
- 6. A member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces
- 7. A country that is formally independent in the world but under heavy political economic and military influence or control from another country
- 8. As president he confronted mounting Cold War tensions in Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere
- 10. Won a nobel peace prize for his leadership role in ending the Cold War
- 11. An American emergency law that increased Federal power during WWII
- 13. To establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam War
- 15. He resigned from office in 1974
- 16. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state
- 17. The 40th president, was an actor in his 20's
- 18. A collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War
- 22. 34th president of the US, promoted atoms for peace at the United Nations general assembly in to ease Cold War tensions
- 24. a replacement for the ineffective League of Nations
- 25. A very powerful and influential nation used especially with reference to the US and the former Soviet Union when these were perceived as the most powerful nations in the world
- 26. One of the most major international occupation crises of the Cold War
Down
- 1. The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection
- 2. Economic and social system in which all property and resources are collectively owned by a classless society and not individual citizens
- 3. A joint resolution that the United States Congress passed on in response of the Gulf of Tonkin incident
- 4. An American initiative to aid Europe in which the United States gave 17 billion in economic support to help rebuild Europeans economies after the end of World War I
- 9. 33rd president of the US after Roosevelt
- 12. He led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War
- 14. An agreement to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals
- 19. The easing of hostility or strained relations
- 20. At the end of WWII, US, British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany
- 21. The cruel dictator of the Soviet Union
- 23. The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
- 27. A political and military alliance of 28 North American and European countries bound by shared democratic values that have joined together to best pursue security and defense
- 28. The war after WW2, between the USA and the USSR