WH Topic 19: Cold War Conflicts
Across
- 3. a group of Communist guerrillas who fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
- 5. U.S. President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
- 7. a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975
- 8. nations the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
- 10. in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together
- 14. militia units formed by young Chinese people in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution
- 16. a series of meetings in which leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons
- 17. during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union
- 18. the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II
- 20. an uprising in China led by the Red Guards with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
- 21. the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
Down
- 1. during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
- 2. a U.S. foreign policy in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
- 4. a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon
- 6. a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
- 9. a line of latitude that divided Korea into two nations after World War II
- 11. a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II
- 12. a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
- 13. an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
- 15. a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
- 19. a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada