WH Chapter 23 Test

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Across
  1. 2. US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII
  2. 3. Where Korea was divided into two nations after WWII
  3. 4. The developing nations not allied with either the US or the USSR
  4. 6. Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary leader; he wanted to bring communism to South Vietnam
  5. 9. Leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964; he was taken out of office for mishandling the Cuban Missile Crisis
  6. 10. A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
  7. 11. Communist political leader of Cuba; helped overthrow the Cuban government in 1959
  8. 12. The boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe and democratic nations of Western Europe
  9. 14. US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by opponents
  10. 16. US tried to stop the spread of communism around the world
  11. 17. Chinese general and politician; Leader of the Nationalist party
  12. 18. A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
Down
  1. 1. The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
  2. 2. British politician and prime minister; Europe's first woman prime minister
  3. 5. Group of Communist guerrillas who fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
  4. 7. A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the US, and Canada
  5. 8. An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945
  6. 13. In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together
  7. 15. Policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US under Nixon