Superpowers & Strategy

4. U.S.strategy aimed at preventing the spread of communism.
5. 1947 U.S. policy promising support to countries resisting communism.
11. American program providing economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
14. Energy released from splitting or combining atomic nuclei.
15. Nations not aligned with either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
17. Soviet economic aid program for Eastern European countries.
18. A nation with dominant global political and military influence.
20. Proposed International organization to control nuclear weapons after WWII.

1. 1945 meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to plan postwar europe
2. Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the division between Western Europe and Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe.
3. The working class in Marxist theory.
6. Political or economic dominance of one country over others.
7. Competition between nations to build more powerful military weapons.
8. A long period of political tension and rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that did not turn into direct full-scale war.
9. An economic system in which property and industry are owned by the community or state.
10. A military buffer area separating North and South Korea.
12. 1945 meeting where Allied leaders discussed post–World War II Europe.
13. The era following World War II characterized by nuclear technology and weapons.
16. Conflict from 1950–1953 between communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea.
19. Soviet attempt to cut off land access to West Berlin in 1948–1949.