Social Studies 30-2 Unit 6 Review

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Across
  1. 3. The acronym for a collective security alliance among liberal countries.
  2. 6. A restructuring of economic and political systems that inadvertently resulted in the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
  3. 8. Solving conflicts through negotiation and other peaceful means.
  4. 10. The name of the collective security alliance among communist countries.
  5. 11. This 13-day event, south of the US, nearly triggered a nuclear war.
  6. 16. The man who took over as leader of the USSR after Stalin died.
  7. 17. Erected in 1961, this created a physical divide between the East and West of the city, trapping Easterners inside.
  8. 18. In response to a blockade by Stalin, the West flew food and fuel into the city over 250,000 times over 11 months.
  9. 20. An acronym for the US president at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  10. 21. A $13.6 billion plan to help European countries impacted by war so they'd be less likely to turn to communism.
  11. 23. An acronym that describes how a nuclear war would destroy both the attacker and defender.
  12. 24. A "hot" war fought between ideological enemies in another country.
  13. 25. Developing arms that can counteract your enemy's actions.
  14. 26. Competing through military and non-military means.
Down
  1. 1. Reducing tensions through diplomacy, agreements, and relationship-building.
  2. 2. A policy of political openness in the USSR.
  3. 4. Pushing a conflict to a point where it could end in disaster.
  4. 5. A metaphor to help humanity understand how close they are to complete self-destruction and extinction.
  5. 7. This is the struggle to gain independence from countries that have colonized or oppressed them.
  6. 9. Stopping the spread of communism.
  7. 12. Implemented by Stalin, this stopped the transportation of products into the western half of a city in East Germany.
  8. 13. These 2 treaties had limited missile production as a form of tension reduction.
  9. 14. A 45-year ideological battle between communists and liberal democracies.
  10. 15. Spying on your enemy so you can use information against them.
  11. 19. Agreed by many historians to be the start of the Cold War, this formalized the division of Germany and Berlin.
  12. 22. Churchill said this famous quote when describing the ideological and geographical divide between the communists and liberals.