cold war

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Across
  1. 2. Powers Act - required the President get approval from Congress before sending troops to an armed struggle.
  2. 4. - a group of communist guerillas (fighters who use hit-and-run tactics) that supported the North but live in the South
  3. 8. Plan - $12 billion given to Western European countries to rebuild after WWII. Now they would not have to turn to the Soviet Union for help and become communist.
  4. 9. Nations - international peacekeeping organization developed after WWII. Member nations agreed to bring disputes to the UN for peaceful settlement.
  5. 11. of Tonkin Resolution - the U.S. would take all measures necessary to stop Soviet aggression in North Vietnam.
  6. 12. Stalin - Communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
  7. 14. Nixon – President from 1969-1974, he followed a foreign policy marked by détente with the Soviet Union and by the opening of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
  8. 16. (FREE-ENTERPRISE SYSTEM) - citizens can own their own businesses with hope of making a profit
  9. 21. Khrushchev - 1953 became the leader of the USSR when Stalin died. He was responsible for building the Berlin Wall and was leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  10. 22. - stop communism from spreading; contain communism to the areas where it exists. US foreign policy started by President Truman.
  11. 23. Peace Accords - agreement made by North Vietnam, South Vietnam, and the Untied States to end the Vietnam War.
  12. 26. States - nations controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War as a buffer to a united Germany. Ex: Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.
  13. 27. Reagan – President from 1981-1989, his second term was marked by the ending of the Cold War. He publicly portrayed the USSR as an "evil empire" and supported anti-Communist movements worldwide
Down
  1. 1. Treaty - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. US & USSR signed a treaty limiting the number of nuclear warheads & missiles they built.
  2. 3. Doctrine - $400 million in military aid was given to Turkey and Greece so they would not be taken over by communist rebels.
  3. 5. - an economic system where the government owns the means of production.
  4. 6. D. Eisenhower – President from 1953-1961, he oversaw the cease-fire of the Korean War, made nuclear weapons a higher defense priority, & launched the Space Race.
  5. 7. - North Atlantic Treaty Organization. US formed a military alliance with friendly nations – mostly in Western Europe- member nations pledged to defend one another if they were attacked.
  6. 10. - period in the 1970’s of reduced hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union
  7. 12. F. Kennedy - President from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Events during his administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall & the Space Race.
  8. 13. Wars - the development of weapons that could shoot down Soviet missiles from space.
  9. 15. Theory - President Eisenhower’s belief that once one country falls to communism the surrounding nations would also fall.
  10. 17. – a country with enough military, political, and economic power to influence other countries.
  11. 18. S. Truman - President from 1945-1953, Democratic Party, made decision to drop the atom bomb in WWII; enacted the Berlin Airlift and the Truman Doctrine.
  12. 19. War - a state of tension between nations without actual fighting - between the US and Soviet Union 1945 – 1990.
  13. 20. Gorbachev - leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 - 1991. He believed major steps were needed to improve the economy and worked with President Reagan to improve relations with the US.
  14. 24. Pact - a military alliance of eastern European nations formed by the Soviet Union in 1955
  15. 25. Airlift - United States used airplanes to bring food, fuel, medicine, and other supplies into West Berlin for a year until Stalin lifted the blockade.