The Cold War: 1945 - 1991

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  1. 1. special house committee that investigated suspected communists
  2. 4. US & USSR agreed to limit the production of nuclear weapons when they signed the __________; (acronym)
  3. 8. nickname for President Reagan's strategic defensive initiative
  4. 9. alliance of US, Canada, and countries of Western Europe
  5. 10. controversial director of FBI during Cold War: J. Edgar _____________
  6. 12. In 1948 - 1949, the Berlin _______________________ prevented the Soviet Union from taking over Berlin.
  7. 13. policy of giving US aid to western European nations
  8. 14. a period of tension between democratic and communist governments following WWII
  9. 15. US agency that relied on spying and secret operations to remove unfriendly governments
  10. 19. Truman's policy of investigating federal employees to see if they were a communist
  11. 20. a doctrine that gave the president to use armed force to prevent the spread of communism in the Middle East; ________________ Doctrine
  12. 21. president during Cuban missile crisis (initials)
  13. 22. Eisenhower's policy of threatening an all out war, practiced as a deterrent to further aggression
  14. 24. invisible wall that separate the Warsaw Pact countries from Western Europe
  15. 25. nationwide panic that communists or "reds" would seize control of America
  16. 26. practice of recklessly accusing someone of being a communist
  17. 28. period of lessening tension between NATO & Warsaw Pact nations
  18. 29. first unmanned satellite launched into orbit
Down
  1. 2. competition between USSR and US to develop powerful new weapons
  2. 3. built in 1961 to divide the German city of Berlin into a communist eastern sector and a democratic western sector
  3. 4. countries of Eastern Europe which came under Soviet control after WWII
  4. 5. American volunteers who help needy people in underdeveloped countries of the world
  5. 6. October 1962; Khrushchev/Castro vs JFK; 13 Days; blockade/quarantine; ExComm; Cuban __________ __________ (2 words)
  6. 7. Douglas _________________ was removed by Truman because he failed to implement the president's policies in Korea
  7. 11. husband & wife executed for passing atomic secrets to a Soviet spy
  8. 16. method of preventing communists from working
  9. 17. unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in April of 1961, known as _______ _____ ______ (3 words)
  10. 18. a policy of political, economic, and military pressure to restrict the spread of communism
  11. 23. rivalry between the US and US for superiority in space exploration
  12. 27. former Cuban dictator