Module 12 Crossword
Across
- 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
- 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.
- 8. During his administration the United States faced off with the Soviet Union in Cuba and Berlin
- 9. he took office after the assassination of JFK
- 11. the reconstructing of the economy and the government instituted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s
- 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.
- 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.
- 19. A Military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites.
- 22. Russian politician, he was the last president of the Soviet Union before the country's collapse in 1991
- 23. A country that is dominated politically and economically by another nation.
- 26. the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control
- 27. the open discussion of social problems that was permitted in the Soviet Union in the 1980s
- 28. he championed the policy of detente and visited both China and the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 31. a proposed defense system, popularly known as Star Wars- intended to protect the United States against missile attacks
Down
- 1. The downing of a U.S. spy plane and capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
- 2. A congressional committee created in 1938 that investigated Communist influence inside and outside the US government in the years following WWII
- 4. a Cold War policy to respond to any attack with nuclear force, resulting in the total destruction of both parties
- 5. 39th president of the US, his focus on human rights brought an end to detente as Cold War policy
- 7. A U.S. agency created to gather secret information about foreign governments.
- 10. a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada
- 12. He faced challenges in many parts of the world during the Cold War
- 13. the state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II
- 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.
- 15. the attacks, often unsubstantiated, by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on people suspected of being Communists in the early 1950s
- 16. competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 25. American politician and the 40th president of the US, his presidency focused on arms control and the end of the Cold War
- 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