The Cold War Begins: 1945 -1954

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Across
  1. 4. Country divided into capitalist west and communist east following WWII.
  2. 8. WWII who gave a 1946 speech describing the "iron curtain"
  3. 9. Communist leader who came to power in China from 1949.
  4. 10. Musical style that would not exist without U.S. involvement in the Korean War.
  5. 11. WWII hero fired for insubordination, challenging presidential policies and advocating for expanding the Korean War into China.
  6. 13. Created by Congress to investigate communist activity in the U.S.
  7. 15. Idea that the U.S. would use military force to resist the spread of communism.
  8. 16. Undertook by the Western Allies in 1949 to carry supplies to the people of West Berlin.
  9. 19. Current leader of North Korea.
  10. 22. Slang term for a communist.
  11. 23. U.S. postwar policy to try and stop the spread of communism.
  12. 25. Military alliance between the U.S. and its allies in the North Atlantic to stop the spread of communism.
  13. 27. Soviet description of the United States following WWII.
  14. 28. U.S. Senator who claimed the government and society wwre infiltrated by communists.
  15. 30. Remote island chain in the Pacific chosen by the U.S. as a nuclear weapon testing site.
  16. 31. Idea that if either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. were to use nuclear weapons, the other side would retaliate.
Down
  1. 1. Nickname for the Korean War.
  2. 2. period of international rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and their respective allies from the end of WWII to 1991.
  3. 3. Figurative divide between capitalist west and communist east.
  4. 5. American aid to rebuild Western Europe following WWII.
  5. 6. Left office in 1952 with the worst approval rating in U.S. history, but now usually thought of as one of the best.
  6. 7. Country divided into capitalist south and communist north following WWII.
  7. 12. Sent massive forces to aid North Korea during the Korean War.
  8. 14. Formed after WWII to replace the ineffective League of Nations - this time the U.S. joins.
  9. 17. U.S. citizens who were convicted and executed for spying for the Soviet Union.
  10. 18. More likely to be accused of having communist ideas because they embraced change.
  11. 20. Nation that controlled Eastern Europe following WWII and armed and supplied communist nations across the globe.
  12. 21. Prevented people accused of having communist sympathies from obtaining employment.
  13. 24. Leader of the Soviet Union, who broke the promised he made at Yalta to allow free elections in Eastern Europe following WWII.
  14. 26. The decline of the influence of McCarthy came after his televised hearings on communist infiltration of this.
  15. 29. Author of the "Long Telegram", American diplomat who outlined the U.S. policy of containment during the start of the Cold War.