The Cold War

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  1. 3. The term for economic reforms made by the Soviet Union in 1980s
  2. 4. The plan provided aid to help rebuild the democracies of Europe after ww2
  3. 5. conflict between communist North Korea hoping to unify the country under a Communist government and democratic South
  4. 7. The battle of international influence that arose between communist and democratic nations following the end of World War 2.
  5. 10. This House of Representatives committee hunted for communists
  6. 13. Communist leader of Cuba
  7. 14. The U.S. senator who believed that some other congressmen and senators were secretly communist. He led investigations of his peers, as well as many military officials and civilians during the early 1950’s.
  8. 16. This was the Soviet policy of increased openness in the 1980s
  9. 20. President who proposed a "massive retaliation" to any attack in 1954
  10. 22. America airlifted supplies into this German city during a crisis in 1954
  11. 23. A dispute during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had built missile sites in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy set up a naval blockade of the island until Soviet leader Nikita Khruschchev ordered the missiles to be removed.
  12. 24. Churchill coined this term for the imaginary division between east and west Europe
  13. 25. The Cuban missile crisis is the best example of this risky policy
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  1. 1. Communist leader of Cuba
  2. 2. Conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces that began in Vietnam. The United States was heavily involved in the
  3. 6. Soviet-led alliance of communist nations during the Cold War
  4. 8. Communist leader of North Vietnam
  5. 9. The political idea that all property should be publicly owned and managed by a central government. © LoveLearning
  6. 11. This was build to keep Germans from fleeing into the Western part of the capital
  7. 12. The Offensive was a surprise attack on the Vietcong in 1968
  8. 15. President who oversaw the cuban missile crisis and bay of pigs invasion
  9. 17. Korea has been divided at the 38th since the Korean War
  10. 18. He became president when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
  11. 19. An alliance of Western democratic nations formed after World War 2 to defend themselves against communist aggression.
  12. 21. The name given to the physical and political division between communist countries and democratic countries during the Cold