Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
  2. 6. A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
  3. 7. The power struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.
  4. 8. The conflict between Communist North Korea and Non-Communist South Korea. The United Nations (led by the United States) helped South Korea.
  5. 13. A political barrier that isolated the peoples of communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
  6. 16. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
  7. 17. the U.S. strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion
  8. 18. The 1962 confrontation bewteen US and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles in Cuba
Down
  1. 1. First artificial Earth satellite, it was launched by Moscow in 1957 and sparked U.S. fears of Soviet dominance in technology and outer space. It led to the creation of NASA and the space race.
  2. 2. the act of spying, especially a government spy obtaining secrets of another government
  3. 4. Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences
  4. 5. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non-Communist countries including the United States that support each other if attacked.
  5. 9. Cold war competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build up their respective armed forces and weapons
  6. 10. The US theory that stated, if one country would fall to Communism then they all would.
  7. 11. a plan for aiding the European nations in economic recovery after World War II in order to stabilize and rebuild their countries and prevent the spread of communism
  8. 12. Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
  9. 14. A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
  10. 15. A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991.