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