GH STEVEN MOORE SOCIAL STUDIES 7TH

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Across
  1. 2. a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
  2. 4. relating to people who have common racial, religious, or cultural origins
  3. 6. building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy
  4. 7. the period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s
  5. 8. the British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during World War II
  6. 9. being a weapon whose destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction
  7. 11. during the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war; each nation believed that neither would launch a nuclear attack since both knew that the other side could strike back with devastating power
  8. 13. a resistance fighter in World War II
  9. 14. of containment a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves
  10. 15. an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
Down
  1. 1. the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
  2. 3. the deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
  3. 5. a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country
  4. 10. the refusal to take sides or become involved in wars between other nations
  5. 12. japanese for divine wind a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea