US History Unit 9

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Across
  1. 3. Provided a year’s worth of unemployment compensation for every honorably discharged veteran who had seen active duty
  2. 8. The Iron ¬¬¬¬¬_____________ divided Europe into the “free” West and the Communist East controlled by the Soviet Union.
  3. 9. The plan to thwart Soviet plans for the world was to prevent the expansion of Soviet influence, primarily through economic policy
  4. 11. The European Recovery Program
  5. 12. Suburban housing developments consisting of acres of mass-produced homes
  6. 15. What was the name for the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944?
  7. 16. A marked increase in the U.S. birthrate during 1946–1964
  8. 20. Avoiding foreign alliances that might require the commitment of American troops abroad
  9. 21. The _____________ offered support to Greece and Turkey in the form of financial assistance, weaponry, and troops to help train their militaries and bolster their governments against Communism.
  10. 23. What conflict was the first major test of the U. S. policy of containment in Asia
Down
  1. 1. The political policy of the Soviet Union feared by Americans after the War
  2. 2. Hitler’s plan to kill the Jews of Europe
  3. 4. A list of people suspected of having Communist sympathies who were denied work as a result
  4. 5. _______________ retaliation refers to a defense strategy, sometimes called “mutually assured destruction” or MAD, adopted by Eisenhower.
  5. 6. The first manmade satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957.
  6. 7. The process of releasing troops from active service at the end of the War
  7. 10. Truman’s ___________ Deal sought to guide the nation through the process of returning to a peacetime economy.
  8. 11. The Project launched by President Roosevelt to research the atomic bomb
  9. 13. The __________ War was the decades-long struggle between the US and USSR for technological and ideological supremacy.
  10. 14. The name of the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
  11. 15. The Theory that neighbors to Communist nations were likely to succumb to the same allegedly dangerous and infectious ideology
  12. 17. The program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers during World War II
  13. 18. Turning point in the Pacific Theater
  14. 19. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill were referred to as the ______________.
  15. 22. An alliance of 12 countries pledging its members to mutual defense in the event of attack