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Across
  1. 2. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
  2. 3. an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace
  3. 4. An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
  4. 6. leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2--leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School
  5. 8. (HT) , 1947, President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey
  6. 10. An agency created after World War II to coordinate American intelligence activities abroad. It became involved in intrigue, conspiracy, and meddling as well.
  7. 14. As Secretary of State. he viewed the struggle against Communism as a classic conflict between good and evil. Believed in containment and the Eisenhower doctrine.
  8. 17. An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
  9. 18. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
Down
  1. 1. Policy of the US that it would defend the Middle East against attack by any Communist country
  2. 5. Aggressive Soviet leader whose failed gamble of putting missiles in Cuba cost him his job
  3. 7. he 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president
  4. 9. In 1949, the United States, Canada, and ten European nations formed this military mutual-defense pact. In 1955, the Soviet Union countered NATO with the formation of the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance among those nations within its own sphere of influence.
  5. 11. A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
  6. 12. A 1956 term used by Secretary of State John Dulles to describe a policy of risking war in order to protect national interests
  7. 13. Joint effort by the US and Britian to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
  8. 15. Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
  9. 16. The incident when an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The U.S. denied the true purpose of the plane at first, but was forced to when the U.S.S.R. produced the living pilot and the largely intact plane to validate their claim of being spied on aerially. The incident worsened East-West relations during the Cold War and was a great embarrassment for the United States.