4.1 Early Cold War

1. economic system in which private individuals and corporations control production
3. 1947 plan that supplied aid to European nations trying to rebuild after WWII
8. communist leader of China
11. Soviet leader from 1955-1964
12. economic and political system based on a one party government and state ownership of property
13. term associated with Joseph McCarthy and his Red Scare tactics
17. countries that were dominated by the USSR
18. American president elected in 1952; former general
19. Cold War competition between the US and USSR to build up their weapons
21. military alliance formed by the USSR and its satellites
25. policy created by Truman to provide aid to free nations threatened by communism
26. Central Intelligence Agency
27. fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life

1. Nationalist leader of China
2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; made up of non-communist countries
4. mutually assured destruction
5. larger than expected generation in the US born after WWII
6. vaccine developed in 1953 by Jonas Salk
7. concrete wall the separated East and West Berlin
9. blocking another nation's attempts to spread their influence
10. meeting of Allied nations to address post war issues in Europe
14. 327 day operation in which the US and British planes flew food and supplies into West Berlin
15. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
16. policy that would defend the Middle East against attack by communists
20. phrase used by Churchill to describe the imaginary line separating East and West Europe
22. crisis in which Britain and France tried to seize control of the Suez Canal
23. conflict between communist North Korea and non-communist South Korea
24. House on Un-American Activities; investigated un-American propaganda