History Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. System in which one person runs a country.
  2. 4. Britain, United States and Russia were this.
  3. 5. Political system in which the population votes for its government in elections held on a regular basis.
  4. 9. Policy of Britain and France in 1930's allowing Hitler to break terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
  5. 12. A program created by the US providing aid to Western Europe following the destruction of World War II.
  6. 14. Organisation to spread Communist ideas and also make sure Communist states followed ideas of Communism practiced in the USSR.
  7. 15. Roosevelt and Churchill got together and decided that Stalin would heavily influence Eastern Europe. This was called.
  8. 17. A barrier that divided capitalist and communist nations.
  9. 18. Plan behind Marshall Aid. Although it was an economic programme it was also political. Some commentators argued it was an economic from of imperialism designed to allow the US to dominate Western Europe.
  10. 20. The former Russian Empire after it became a Communist state in the late 1920s.
  11. 21. The United States and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.
  12. 22. An agreement between two countries to help or defend each other usually in trade or war.
  13. 23. A 1940s military operation led by Truman that supplied West Berlin with food and other vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded the city.
Down
  1. 1. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
  2. 3. A conference held in August 1945 between President Truman, Stalin and Churchill, then Atlee. They discussed major issues including the Atomic Bomb and Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe.
  3. 6. Term generally used to refer to the US and its allies during the Cold War.
  4. 7. The biggest communist country where the Soviet Union was formed.
  5. 8. A conference between the US, USSR and Britain in 1945 to decide the shape of the world after WW2 ended.
  6. 10. Action by USSR to cut road, rail and canal links between West Berlin and the rest of Germany. Aim was to force the US and their allies to withdraw from West Berlin.
  7. 11. Political, economic, and social system involving state control of economy and less emphasis on individual rights than capitalism.
  8. 13. Nuclear weapons, only used in WW2 by US against Japan but a constant threat in the Cold War.
  9. 16. Created to help any country which was threatened by a communist take over. (also known as containment)
  10. 19. Policy in the Us in the 1920's which argued that the US should not get involved in international disputes.