Module 7 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  2. 3. the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
  3. 7. a U.S. foreign policy concept during the Cold War (1950s–1980s) holding that if one nation in a region fell to communism, neighboring countries would inevitably fall as well, like a row of dominoes
  4. 9. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
Down
  1. 1. a Cold War-era defense strategy adopted by the U.S. and NATO in the 1960s to replace "massive retaliation," offering a range of proportional responses to aggression
  2. 2. being placed on a list of people labelled as untrustworthy, or banned.
  3. 4. a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
  4. 5. compulsory recruitment for military service.
  5. 6. independent states who are heavily influenced by another, often stronger state
  6. 8. prolonged geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union