Across
- 2. the global struggle for power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union that followed World War II
- 4. close watch kept over someone or something, especially by a detective or investigator
- 6. to be most noticeable within a group
- 9. an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the world’s nations
- 11. took advantage of Americans' fears to gain political power
- 13. to put an end to or get rid of
- 14. who was arrested and charged with passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
- 17. the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information
- 19. people or things injured or destroyed
- 20. a war in which the superpowers backed different sides, which acted as substitutes for the superpowers themselves
Down
- 1. a list of people or groups who are under suspicion for something and are thus excluded from certain opportunities
- 3. an economic system based on private ownership of farms and businesses
- 5. an economic system based on the idea that farms and businesses should be owned in common by the workers who do the labor
- 7. a U.S. aid plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War II
- 8. a competition to develop and manufacture more and more powerful weapons
- 10. the U.S. policy of fighting the spread of communism by limiting it to countries where it already existed
- 12. the act of getting or obtaining something
- 15. ____ preparedness soon became part of daily life
- 16. to declare to be blameworthy or evil
- 18. In April 1949, ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada formed the