Across
- 1. Example: Wars influenced by the US and USSR in Vietnam and Korea
- 4. Term used by Winston Churchill in describing the growing ideological divide between Western and Eastern Europe
- 6. Space administration created to advance space technology during the Space Race.
- 7. Plan devised by President Truman that committed over $10 billion to rebuilding Western Europe after WWII and preventing communism.
- 10. Term used to describe the actions of Joseph McCarthy in spurring the Second Red Scare, in which he claimed to possess a list of government officials associated with the Communist Party.
- 12. Technique used by Nixon with the purpose of relaxing tension between world powers during the Cold War
- 13. Negotiations between USSR and the US to limit the number of newly created nuclear weapons, each side agreed to limit strategic ballistic missile launchers.
- 14. Organization founded to provide Arab oil-producing nations greater leverage when dealing with US and Western oil companies
- 16. Coordinated military attack by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam meant to suppress American involvement in the Vietnam War
- 18. Term used to describe the potential dangers of communism in which a communist takeover in one nation would lead to the spread of communism in neighboring states
- 19. Technique proposed by Nixon to limit American influence in Vietnam through the training of Vietnamese forces and provision of resources.
- 20. Term used to describe the tense nature of conflict between the US and USSR, in which both countries continued to increase their nuclear arsenal.
Down
- 2. Name of the first Soviet satellite launched during the Space Race
- 3. Strategic foreign policy utilized by the US during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism
- 5. Organization of governments of typically newly independent countries in which they did not develop alliances with Western or Soviet blocs
- 8. Crisis that erupted after Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal, led to diplomatic and economic pressure by the US
- 9. Organization formed in 1949 including US, Canada, and most of Western Europe, USSR responded with the Warsaw Pact
- 11. Doctrine issued by President Truman which declared that the US would provide aid to countries in order to prevent communist infiltration.
- 15. Russian word translating to "restructuring," used to describe reforms proposed by Mikhail Gorbachev nearing the end of the Cold War
- 17. Nickname of President Reagans plan to research, develop, and develop a system which could destroy nuclear missiles in space