Cold War Reading

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Across
  1. 5. ^Use of force by a state in another country (e.g., Cold War context).
  2. 7. ^ Government aligned with Western capitalist countries, especially the United States.
  3. 9. ^One party system with heavy control, censorship, and repression.
  4. 12. ^Monitoring citizens through spying/secret police.
  5. 13. ^ “A ___ of opinions”: many voices/choices in politics.
  6. 14. ^Idea tied closely to communism in Vietnam’s anti colonial struggle.
  7. 16. ^South Vietnam described as a ___ backed by the US.
  8. 23. ^System Vietnamese communists said they were fighting alongside capitalism.
  9. 25. ^Post 1945 process of colonies gaining independence.
  10. 27. ^Churchill’s phrase describing Europe’s Cold War division.
  11. 28. ^Leader who combined Marxism with Vietnamese nationalism.
  12. 29. ^1945 defeat created Asian power vacuums.
  13. 30. ^Famous Moscow complex associated with Soviet leadership.
  14. 31. ^Ideology based on Karl Marx’s ideas.
  15. 33. ^Soviet capital referenced as the centre of Eastern European alignment.
  16. 34. ^A collapse of authority leaving no clear successor.
  17. 35. Countries between rival powers to reduce the risk of invasion.
  18. 38. ^Political system described as emerging in communist states.
  19. 39. Cruel, harsh, oppressive use of absolute power.
  20. 41. ^ Marxist “transitional phase” where the working class holds power to prevent capitalism’s return.
  21. 42. ^ Harsh measures Lenin justified as “temporary but necessary.”
  22. 43. ^Leader who expanded patterns of one party control after Lenin.
  23. 44. ^Blocking the spread of information/ideas.
Down
  1. 1. ^Example of a Soviet aligned state in Eastern Europe.
  2. 2. ^British leader who warned of an “iron curtain.”
  3. 3. ^Peninsula divided after WWII; later war broke out.
  4. 4. ^Eastern European uprising example (1956).
  5. 6. ^Mao’s campaign to attack “old ideas” and reassert control.
  6. 8. ^Marx’s term for institutions (media, education, law, etc.) that support the economic base.
  7. 10. ^Line dividing Korea mentioned in the reading.
  8. 11. ^Eastern European protests example (1968).
  9. 15. ^Communist leader who adapted Marxism to rural China.
  10. 17. ^A set of beliefs shaping politics and society.
  11. 18. ^Critics said communist rule in Eastern Europe was ___, not freely chosen.
  12. 19. ^Bitterness caused by being imposed upon; contributed to uprisings.
  13. 20. ^National ___ promised for 1956 in Vietnam were never held.
  14. 21. ^Site of French defeat in 1954.
  15. 22. ^Label used for alleged opponents targeted in campaigns.
  16. 23. ^Country where communists won in 1949, establishing the PRC.
  17. 24. ^Country divided into North and South after 1954.
  18. 26. ^European ___ weakened after WWII.
  19. 32. ^ Elections manipulated through intimidation, restricted opposition, or state power.
  20. 36. ^ Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution; wrote What Is to Be Done?
  21. 37. ^Lenin’s revolutionary party that seized power in 1917.
  22. 40. ^Tried to reassert colonial control in Vietnam after WWII.