Vocabulary Crossword Project

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  1. 6. Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II
  2. 7. an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe.
  3. 8. one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
  4. 11. a geopolitical theory which posits that increases or decreases in democracy in one country tend to spread to neighboring countries in a domino effect.
  5. 12. the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
  6. 13. an American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats."
  7. 15. a political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991
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  1. 1. an alliance of countries from Europe and North America
  2. 2. the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
  3. 3. fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.
  4. 4. an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations
  5. 5. Communism is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement
  6. 9. a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
  7. 10. A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the U.S. and the former USSR during the Cold War.
  8. 14. a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.