THE COLD WAR

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Across
  1. 2. a state of tension between 2 or more nations with no actual fighting
  2. 4. military mutual-defense pact
  3. 9. A peace-keeping organization created at the end of WW2 in hopes of preventing future military conflict
  4. 11. February, 1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met at Yalta to make final war plans, arrange the post-war fate of Germany, and discuss the proposal for creation of the United Nations as a successor to the League of Nations. They announced the decision to divide Germany into three post-war zones of occupation, although a fourth zone was later created for France. Russia also agreed to enter the war against Japan, in exchange for the Kuril Islands and half of the Sakhalin Peninsula.
  5. 14. A parallel of latitude that in East Asia roughly demarcates North and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S military planners at the Potsdam Conference, in July 1945, as an army boundary, north of which the Soviet Union was to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces in Korea and south of which the Americans were to accept the Japanese surrender. The line was intended as a temporary division
  6. 15. The supply of West Berlin by American And British planes during a Soviet blockade in 1948-1949.
  7. 16. an economic system based on private ownership of business
  8. 21. A1952 immigration law imposed rigid restrictions on entry quotas to the United States from Asia and Southern and Central Europe
  9. 22. The theory that if one nation in Asia falls to communism, the rest will follow
  10. 23. a political system in which citizens vote for their representatives and their wishes
  11. 24. Launched by the Soviet Union - the first artificial satellite put into Earth's orbit
  12. 25. Group of people in the film industry who were jailed for refusing to answer congressional questions regarding Communist influence in Hollywood in the late 1940s.
  13. 28. an economic system based on community or government ownership of business
  14. 29. curtain an imaginary line dividing the communist controlled sphere within Europe and the "free" or democratic nations of Europe
  15. 30. The battle between the United States and the Soviet Union in which both nations aimed to be the first to explore outer space
Down
  1. 1. An American aid program in Europe which provided support to the war-torn countries after WW2 in attempt to stop the spread of communism
  2. 3. the policy of not allowing communism to spread to any more nations
  3. 5. a battle between two or more countries to create the most and best weaponry
  4. 6. abandoning allegiance to one country (or military) for another
  5. 7. Assistance The Soviet Union's response to the Marshall Plan, whereby the Soviet Union offered economic aid packages for Eastern European countries.
  6. 8. Khrushchev revealed the existance of a letter written by Lenin that was very critical of Stalin; used to denounce Stalin's rules & practices
  7. 10. Policy in which nations agree to protect one another against attack.
  8. 12. a political system in which one leader or a small group of leaders holds absolute power
  9. 13. "openness" was the new policy of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev to encourage political debate and criticism in the Soviet Union. It was coupled with "perestroika" to decentralize administration and reward individual enterprise
  10. 17. The practice of publicizing accusations of political disloyalty of accusing a person of subversive activities without sufficient evidence.
  11. 18. a period of increased birth rates in the United States that occurred after the return of veterans from WW2
  12. 19. Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party
  13. 20. The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the Cold War, and it led to the Berlin Airlift.
  14. 26. A military alliance of communist nations that agree to work together in case of attack from an outside source
  15. 27. Bomb The Soviet Union's testing of an atomic bomb motivated America to develop a hydrogen bomb with 1000 times the power of the atomic bomb.