Cold War
Across
- 3. the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region.
- 4. a political term for a country that is formally independent, but under heavy political and economic influence or control by another country.
- 5. an international relations policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech on March 12, 1947, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling into the Soviet sphere
- 6. the countries that opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War
- 7. a range of more than 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) typically designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more nuclear warheads).
- 13. is the capital city of Germany and one of the 16 states of Germany
- 14. a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
- 17. symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
- 18. southern Ukraine, on the north coast of the Black Sea.
- 19. the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953
- 20. the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953).
Down
- 1. commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being
- 2. an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
- 6. a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
- 8. Involving atomic energy
- 9. a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces.
- 10. the American program to aid Europe, in which the United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Soviet Communism.
- 11. a constitutionally communist state that existed between 1922 and 1991,
- 12. a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
- 15. the first artificial Earth satellite.
- 16. Action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action