The Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. In 1945 several countries came together to create a group that was organized to keep peace between all countries. What was the name of this group?
  2. 3. The Cold War was primarily between the ______ and the Soviet Union
  3. 5. In June, 1947, Truman called for the _____ Plan. This plan called for the rebuild of the European economy with the help of other European countries
  4. 8. In 1957 the US and the USSR started the _____ race because the USSR launched the Sputnik1 and developed long range missiles
  5. 9. The Truman Doctrine called for the US involvement to stop Communism. This was called, _______
  6. 11. One of the outcomes of the Korean War was that NATO formed a ________ Structure
  7. 12. In 1961 the US created a program called the Cuban ______ in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban leader Castro
  8. 15. President Truman announced his plan to stop the spread of Communism. This became known as the Truman _____
  9. 17. In response to the creation of NATO the Soviet Union and allies signed the _______ Pact
  10. 19. The term "Cold" is used for this War because no large-scale _________ took place between the two sides
  11. 20. This writer first used the term "Cold War" in his essay published October 1954
Down
  1. 1. In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world closer to a ______ war than ever before
  2. 2. In April 1945 Roosevelt died and was succeeded by who?
  3. 4. In Russia, most historians believe that the cold war started in 1917 when the _______ took power
  4. 6. At this conference, in late July after the Germans surrendered, it was determined that Russia had very different plans for the future of Germany
  5. 7. Stalin had heated correspondence with _____ because USSR was not allowed to participate in the Northern Italy Peace Treaty
  6. 10. One week after the Postdam Conference the US used a powerful new weapon to bomb ________
  7. 13. In response to the merged zones by the US, Britain, and France, Stalin implemented the Berlin _______
  8. 14. In April 1949 the US, Britain, and France merged their Western German Occupation zones together to create an area called _______
  9. 16. At the Postdam Conference Truman informed Stalin that the US had developed a powerful new _______
  10. 18. Truman distrusted who? This lead to further tensions between the United States and Russia