The Cold War

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  1. 3. Capital of Germany that was divided into 4 zones of occupation after WWII. Soviet Union had the east, America, France, Gt. Britain in the west.
  2. 6. North Atlantic Treaty Organization an alliance of democratic countries in western Europe made to defend one another if they were attacked.
  3. 8. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  4. 10. Country involved in the Cold War who wanted autocracies and communism.
  5. 13. Symbol of the Cold War, built in Germany to separate Communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin.
  6. 14. A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe after WWII. Offered money to countries who supported democracy and resisted communism.
  7. 16. A political system in which citizens vote for their leaders.
  8. 17. A political system with the economy and government power controlled by a central government.
  9. 19. The United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
  10. 20. 1955-1975 A twenty year conflict between communist North against South and its ally, the United States. Ended with an unified communist country.
Down
  1. 1. An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European communist nations. This was in response to the NATO.
  2. 2. MacArthur American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II. On September 2, 1945, he officially accepted Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. He oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan. Later, he led United Nations forces in the Korean War (1950-1953). Fired for suggesting America invade China to end the Korean War.
  3. 4. Term used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing East-West divide in postwar Europe between communist and democratic nations
  4. 5. A nation with enough strength to influence events in the world. It also refers to the US and Soviet Union during the cold war because they both had a nuclear bomb.
  5. 7. Country involved in the Cold war who wanted democracy and capitalism.
  6. 9. Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb and issued the Truman Doctrine during the Cold War.
  7. 11. 1950-1953 A UN force led by the United States fought for a democracy in the South, and China and the Soviet Union fought for communism in the North. In the end, the boundary between the 2 remained at the 38th parallel (DMZ).
  8. 12. 1950-1991 A period of threats or tensions but never an actual war over differences between Russia and the United States.
  9. 15. A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.
  10. 18. British Prime Minister who opposed appeasement and he predicted an iron curtain that would separate Communist Europe from the rest of the West.