The Cold War Begins: 1945 - 1954!

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