The Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. Allies responded to the blockade by ______________ vital supplies and relief to West Berlin.
  2. 7. Actors, directors, and writers who were linked to the Communist Party were placed on the __________.
  3. 8. This organization formed to fight against Communist expansion.
  4. 10. Soviets blockaded this city so that Western nations couldn’t travel to their areas.
  5. 12. Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  6. 13. Originating from a speech given by Churchill, it describes the division of power between Eastern and Western Europe.
  7. 16. America put up a _________ around Cuba as a response to finding out that nuclear missiles were being sent there from the Soviet Union.
  8. 17. U.S. program that gave aid to Western Europe to recover after WW2--hoping to prevent Soviet influence.
  9. 19. The Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba in response to U.S. missiles being placed in this Southwestern Asian country.
  10. 20. McCarthy finally lost his power and influence after attacking this branch of the U.S. military.
  11. 25. Part of Germany (and Berlin) under Soviet Control.
  12. 26. Another word for spying.
  13. 27. The U.S. promise to protect other countries from Soviet domination, usually in the form of financial and military aid.
Down
  1. 1. A married couple accused of giving top secret information about the Manhattan Project and executed for treason.
  2. 2. Leader of Cuba in the 1960s.
  3. 4. The President of the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  4. 5. This committee investigated allegations of communist activity within the United States.
  5. 6. Group of screeenwriters, producers and directors that refused to cooperate with the Communist investigations and were later sent to prison.
  6. 9. US Cold War policy to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world.
  7. 11. The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when a compromise was reached and U.S. promised not to _______ Cuba if the missiles were dismantled.
  8. 14. This Senator led the Communist hunt in the U.S. government and sparked a mass anti-communist hysteria.
  9. 15. The Communist response to the forming of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  10. 18. High-ranking State Department official was accused of spying for the Soviet Union.
  11. 21. Political and economic clashes over communism (mostly between the U.S. and the Soviet Union).
  12. 22. Americans became nervous about the showdown between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cuban crisis and _________ food and gas.
  13. 23. Mass anti-communist hysteria.
  14. 24. American officials were concerned about nuclear missiles being stored in Cuba because it’s only 90 miles from this state.