The Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. Willingness to go to the edge, or brink, of war
  2. 6. The division of Europe between free and communist countries
  3. 9. U.S. policy of sending aid to any nation trying to prevent a Communist takeover
  4. 14. Soviet leader
  5. 15. Military alliance of the Soviet Union and its satellite nations
  6. 17. Republican Senator who claimed Communists were taking over the federal government
  7. 19. Activists in the American Communist Party who were executed as spies
  8. 21. Country dominated by the Soviet Union
  9. 24. Effort to block Soviet influence by making alliances and supporting weaker nations
  10. 25. Downing of a U.S.spy plane and the capture of its pilot by the Soviet Union in 1960
  11. 27. Defensive military alliance of the United States, Canada, and ten European nations
Down
  1. 1. Imaginary line that divides Korea at 38 degrees north latitude
  2. 2. FormerStateDepartment official
  3. 4. Resupply of West Berlin by U.S. and British planes during Soviet blockade of 1948
  4. 5. Pilot of an American U-2 spy plane that was shot down
  5. 7. List of people in the Hollywood film industry who were refused jobs because they did not cooperate with HUAC
  6. 8. State of hostility between the Soviet Union and the United States but without military action
  7. 10. Peacekeeping body of nations
  8. 11. President of the United States
  9. 12. House Committee on Un-American Activities
  10. 13. Term used to refer to tactic of accusing people of disloyalty without producing evidence
  11. 16. War begun when North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950
  12. 18. Program under which the United States gave economic aid to rebuild postwar Western Europe
  13. 20. People called to testify before HUAC who did not cooperate
  14. 22. Leader of the Communist forces in China
  15. 23. Hydrogenbomb
  16. 26. Intelligence-gathering,or spy, agency of the United States government