Module 12 Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. a U.S. policy, announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947, of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
  2. 6. Communist political leader of Cuba; he helped overthrow the Cuban government in 1959 and seized control of the country, exercising total control of the government and economy.
  3. 8. During his administration the United States faced off with the Soviet Union in Cuba and Berlin
  4. 9. he took office after the assassination of JFK
  5. 11. the reconstructing of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s
  6. 14. A 327-day operation in which U.S. and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
  7. 17. Thirty-third president of the United States; he led the United states through the end of WW2 and the beginning of the cold war.
  8. 19. A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.
  9. 22. Russian politician, he was the last president of the Soviet Union before the country's collapse in 1991
  10. 23. A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
  11. 26. the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control
  12. 27. the open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s
  13. 28. he championed the policy of detente and visited both China and the Soviet Union.
  14. 30. The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread it's influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s to early 1950s.
  15. 31. a proposed defense system, popularly known as Star Wars- intended to protect the United States against missile attacks
Down
  1. 1. The downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
  2. 2. A congressional committee created in 1938 that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following WWII
  3. 4. a Cold War policy to respond to any attack with nuclear force, resulting in the total destruction of both parties
  4. 5. 39th president of the US, his focus on human rights brought an end to detente as Cold War policy
  5. 7. A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
  6. 10. a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada
  7. 12. He faced challenges in many parts of the world during the Cold War
  8. 13. the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II
  9. 14. A concrete wall that separated East Berlin and West Berlin from 1961-1989, built by Communist East German government to prevent its citizens from fleeing to the West.
  10. 15. the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s
  11. 16. competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons
  12. 18. The program, proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947, under which the United States supplied economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after World War II.
  13. 20. A conflict between North Korea and South Korea, lasting from 1950-1953, in which the United States along with other UN countries, fought on the side of the South Koreans while China fought on the side of the North Koreans.
  14. 21. A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from the countries in Western Europe.
  15. 24. leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin who thought communism could peacefully take over the world; he came into conflict with President Eisenhower during the U-2 incident.
  16. 25. American politician and the 40th president of the US, his presidency focused on arms control and the end of the Cold War
  17. 29. The flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions, that was adopted by President Richard Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations