The Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. Major Cold War confrontation in 1962 --> Soviets building missile bases on Cuba, atomic missiles could reach US within minutes.
  2. 4. Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear warheads and missiles.
  3. 5. An alliance formed in 1949 by the United States and Western European nations to fight Soviet aggression.
  4. 8. President Truman's policy of giving American aid to nations threatened by communist expansion.
  5. 10. The dividing line between South and North Korea.
  6. 13. Citizens of the United States who were sentenced to death because they passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets.
  7. 18. A system of supply routes from the North, which ran through southern North Vietnam, through Cambodia, and into southern South Vietnam.
  8. 19. Military alliance established in 1955 of the Soviet Union and other communist states in Europe.
  9. 20. The person who led a revolution that set up a communist state in Cuba.
Down
  1. 1. A general who Truman chose to command a force that was sent to Korea to attack after North Korea attacked Southern Korea.
  2. 3. The senator of Wisconsin; he charged 205 State Department employees, and accused them of being communist party members, but they were never proven. Eventually he came across as a bully, and his popularity plunged.
  3. 6. A competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons (between United States and Soviet Union)
  4. 7. Vietnamese guerillas who opposed the noncommunist government of South Vietnam.
  5. 9. After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States.
  6. 11. President who had to decide whether to commit more forces to the struggle in Vietnam. He didn't think it was worth fighting for, and he didn't think they could get out. However, he sent more and more people into Vietnam causing the longest, most unpopular war in American history.
  7. 12. Soviet Union leader in 1959 who had gained power a few years after Stalin died in 1953.
  8. 14. Fighters who used hit and run attacks.
  9. 15. A wall built by the communist East German government in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin.
  10. 16. Government agency that directs the American space program.
  11. 17. The world's first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.