The Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. period of intense anti-communism in the United States during the early 1950s.
  2. 5. A plan devised by President Harry S Truman and Secretary of State George C.
  3. 6. the title of Truman's domestic programs, included ideas for a federal health insurance program and increased funding for schools
  4. 7. Massive military build-up, especially of nuclear weapons, by both the Soviet Union and the United States in an effort to gain military superiority.
  5. 9. was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953.
  6. 13. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.
  7. 15. During World War II it investigated pro-fascist groups.
Down
  1. 1. The dropping of thousands of tons of food and medical supplies to starving West Berliners
  2. 2. Purposely escalating a dangerous situation to the limit ( brink), while giving the impression that you are willing to go to war,
  3. 4. a dramatic rise in the birthrate.
  4. 8. Fundamental US foreign policy during the Cold War in which the US tried to contain Communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries.
  5. 10. were two periods of anti-communist hysteria in the United States.
  6. 11. formal alliance between the territories of North American and Europe.
  7. 12. The belief that if the United States allowed one country to fall to Communism, then many more would follow suit, like a row of dominoes.
  8. 14. United Nations, Satellite nation, containment, iron curtain,