The Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. military alliance of eastern Europe, supported communism
  2. 7. US and USSR compete to see who has the superior technology
  3. 9. actual wall that separated east and west berlin, prevented people from leaving East Germany
  4. 10. the closest the US and USSR came to having a nuclear war
  5. 13. state of high tension between countries but no actual fighting
  6. 14. this country was a capitalist democracy
  7. 16. occurred from 1950-1953, “hot spot” of the cold war
  8. 19. “Imaginary” line that divided communism and capitalism in Europe
  9. 20. US provided $13 billion to help Western European countries rebuild after WWII
Down
  1. 1. communist country that did not align with the USSR
  2. 2. US pledge to provide economic/military aid to Greece and Turkey
  3. 3. leader of the USSR that led to the collapse
  4. 5. resulted in the country becoming completely communist
  5. 6. military alliance of western Europe, supported capitalism
  6. 8. Competition to see who was stronger by having more and powerful weapons (nuclear weapons)
  7. 11. the fall of the Berlin Wall was the ___________ end to the Cold War
  8. 12. this country was a communist dictatorship
  9. 15. US sends airplanes with supplies over Stalin’s Berlin Blockade to help people of West Berlin
  10. 17. the number of zones that Berlin and Germany were split into after WWII
  11. 18. US policy to stop the spread of communism to other regions