Unit 7 Week 16 Cold War
Across
- 2. during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
- 6. announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
- 7. the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II
- 9. a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
- 10. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada
Down
- 1. the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
- 3. was a time of heightened confrontation between the Soviet Union, the United States, and Cuba during the Cold War
- 4. a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
- 5. a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II
- 8. a division into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and Pakistan