The Cold War (Ch. 31)
Across
- 2. a war in which powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly
- 4. policy to prevent the spread of communism
- 5. _______ theory; the idea that if one nation falls to communism, then neighboring countries will too
- 8. keeping a large arsenal of nuclear weapons to prevent war
- 10. a country that is economically & politically dependent on another country
- 11. a dispute during the Cold War in which the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
Down
- 1. the division in Europe between democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe
- 3. building up armies and weapons to have an advantage over an enemy
- 6. An alliance of Western democratic nations formed after World War 2 to defend themselves against communist aggression
- 7. The political idea that all property should be publicly owned and managed by a central government
- 9. The battle of international influence that arose between communist and democratic nations following the end of World War II