History Chapter 18 Vocab Crossword
Across
- 5. States that the United States would defend the Middle East against an attack by any communist country.
- 7. A weapon of mass destruction, which was tested in the Manhattan Project and used against the Japanese.
- 9. Where Chiang and the remnants of the government fled.
- 13. An agency, which investigated Communist influence both inside and outside of the U.S. government.
- 14. Ten unfriendly witnesses, who were called but decided not to cooperate, because they believed the hearings were unconstitutional.
- 16. A division of Europe, which lasted until the end of the Cold War.
- 17. The most famous anti-Communist activist from Wisconsin, who had a reputation for being an ineffective legislator.
- 18. Japanese troops south of this location surrender to the Americans.
- 19. An intergovernmental organization responsible for maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations.
- 22. The leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death. He also believed that communism would take over the world and that it could do so peacefully.
- 23. Use spies to gather information abroad. Also began to carry out secret operations to weaken government unfriendly to the United States.
- 24. An American army general, who was president at the time of the H-bomb.
- 27. A country which is formally independent, but under heavy political, economic, and military influence.
- 28. A communist leader, who worked to win the support of citizens, in order to get them to join the Communists’ Red Army.
- 29. Head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949, and was paid $3 billion by the American government, in order to aid it against Communist.
- 31. A list of people whom they condemned for having a Communist background.
Down
- 1. An American initiative, in which the United States gave $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild.
- 2. Treaty Organization: A defensive military alliance, in which 12 members pledged military support to each other.
- 3. the military alliance formed between the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.
- 4. The secretary of state at the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency. He was extremely anti-Communist.
- 6. Minor activists in the American Communist Party, who denied being Communists when they were questioned.
- 8. Attacks against suspected Communist in the early 1950s.
- 10. A foreign policy, in which there would be extensive, measures to prevent communist.
- 11. A period of geopolitical tension between the Axis Powers and the Allies.
- 12. An incident, in which Eisenhower had enraged Khrushchev, as they had been spying on them. This caused the 1960s to open with tension between the two superpowers.
- 15. A foreign policy, which existed to counter Soviet expansion during the Cold War.
- 20. A U-2 pilot, who stated that although they knew that the Russians had both a way to detect their flights and a way to fight them in the air, they weren’t concerned, because the Russians had a control problem in their guidance system.
- 21. Accused of spying for the Soviet Union by a former Communist spy.
- 25. The foreign policy where one or both parties force an interaction to the threshold of confrontation.
- 26. An attempt to break the blockade, in which food and supplies were flown into West Berlin.
- 30. A known by the attack of North Korean forces across the 38th parallel.