U7 Vocab Packet

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Across
  1. 2. Pact An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO
  2. 3. Race Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
  3. 4. War The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
  4. 7. Race A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
  5. 8. of Pigs Invasion failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1,200 Cuban exiles, backed by the United States, landed at the Bay of Pigs.
  6. 9. Alliance formed to oppose Communism in Southeast Asia
Down
  1. 1. A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.
  2. 5. Accords A 1954 peace agreement that divided Vietnam into Communist-controlled North Vietnam and non-Communist South Vietnam until unification elections could be held in 1956
  3. 6. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries
  4. 10. Offensive 1968; National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces launched a huge attack on the Vietnamese New Year (Tet), which was defeated after a month of fighting and many thousands of casualties; major defeat for communism, but Americans reacted sharply, with declining approval of LBJ and more anti-war sentiment