Lesson 39 Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. a foreign policy characterized by a willingness to push a dangerous situation to the brink, or edge, of war rather than give in to an opponent
  2. 5. during the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the principle that either side would respond to a nuclear attack by launching its own missiles, which helped prevent the Cold War from becoming a hot war
  3. 6. a foreign policy in which a nation develops a weapons arsenal so deadly that another nation will not dare attack
  4. 8. as part of the Cold War and in response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an agreement signed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania to establish a military alliance for mutual defense
  5. 9. a hydrogen bomb, or a bomb created by fusing atoms; more powerful than an atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that the United States first tested in 1952 as part of the arms race
  6. 10. the sudden overthrow of a government by violent force
Down
  1. 1. a country under another country's control
  2. 2. originally, the group of nations that had recently gained independence from colonial rule and were not aligned with the West (First World) or the East (Second World) after World War II; more broadly, the developing nations of the world
  3. 3. an area, often along the border between two military powers, that no military forces are allowed to enter
  4. 7. a competition between nations to achieve the more powerful weapons arsenal