AMSCO Chapter 26: Truman and the Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. A type of hysteria about finding enemies within the government, named after a Republican senator who charged that 205 Communists were still working for the State Department in 1950.
  2. 8. Rapid increase in the birth rate as soldiers came home from war, getting married and starting families.
  3. 9. A New York couple who was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1953.
  4. 11. Originally established in 1939 to seek out Nazis, this congressional committee was reactivated in the postwar years to find communists.
  5. 13. Provided government-funded education and cheap housing to soldiers returning home from war.
  6. 16. President at the end of World War II and reelected in 1948.
  7. 17. This Act weakened labor unions by allowing non-union workers to join unionized industries, while limiting the actions unions can take.
  8. 19. This 1940 law made it illegal to advocate for or teach others to overthrow the government.
  9. 20. Where a lot of veterans' families moved into suburbs, between Florida and southern California.
  10. 21. Since we never actually declared war in Korea, but simply sent troops at the behest of the U.N. Security Council, the Korean "War" was actually THIS.
  11. 23. A project of 17,000 mass-produced, low-priced family homes on Long Island, NY.
  12. 24. New branch of the Democratic party formed by old school Southern members of Congress, also called the States-Rights Party.
Down
  1. 1. Truman's plan to enact several new social programs and reforms, most of which was blocked by Congress.
  2. 3. Policy proposed by Soviet affairs expert George Kennan to stop the spread of communism beyond the existing "iron curtain."
  3. 4. States in Eastern Europe under occupation of the Soviet Union.
  4. 5. U.S. General who oversaw the rebuilding of Japan and was eventually fired over public disagreements with Truman about Korea.
  5. 6. U.S.-supported leader of the Nationalist party in China that fought against Mao Zedong's revolutionary forces.
  6. 7. The New International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, created at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944.
  7. 10. 15 member group within the UN given primary responsibility for maintaining international security and authorizing peacekeeping missions.
  8. 12. A program for the U.S. to provide economic aid to allies in Europe as they rebuild after the war.
  9. 14. German city that was split between East and West, into which the U.S. airdropped supplies.
  10. 15. Leader of the Soviet Union
  11. 18. Members of Hollywood who refused to testify before Congress to be investigated for communist associations were put on these and were not able to find jobs.
  12. 22. A military alliance for defending all members from Soviet invasion.