Crossword: The Cold War #1

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Across
  1. 5. A military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist countries formed in 1955.
  2. 7. An economic and political system where the government controls property and the economy.
  3. 8. The line of latitude that divided North Korea and South Korea.
  4. 10. U.S. strategy to stop the spread of communism to new countries.
  5. 13. The war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.
  6. 15. An international organization formed in 1945 to promote peace and cooperation between nations.
  7. 16. A term describing the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
  8. 17. U.S. policy (1947) to give military and economic aid to countries threatened by communism.
  9. 18. Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin who played a major role in Cold War events.
Down
  1. 1. U.S. policy promising military and economic aid to Middle Eastern countries resisting communism.
  2. 2. U.S. program that gave billions of dollars to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
  3. 3. An economic system where private individuals own businesses and property.
  4. 4. A military alliance formed in 1949 between the United States, Canada, and Western European nations.
  5. 6. A U.S. and Allied operation that flew food and supplies into West Berlin during a Soviet blockade (1948–1949).
  6. 9. A period of fear in the U.S. during the early Cold War about communist influence.
  7. 11. The practice of making accusations of communism without strong evidence.
  8. 12. The policy of pushing dangerous events to the edge of war to force an opponent to back down.
  9. 14. Countries controlled or strongly influenced by the Soviet Union.