GH STEVEN MOORE SOCIAL STUDIES 7TH
Across
- 2. a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
- 4. relating to people who have common racial, religious, or cultural origins
- 6. building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy
- 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
- 8. the British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during World War II
- 9. being a weapon whose destructive power comes from a nuclear reaction
- 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
- 13. a resistance fighter in World War II
- 14. of containment a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves
- 15. an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
Down
- 1. the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
- 3. the deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group
- 5. a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country
- 10. the refusal to take sides or become involved in wars between other nations
- 12. japanese for divine wind a suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea