Cold War

5. a period of intense anti-communism in the United States during the early 1950s.
7. An independent agency of the U.S.
10. a guarded concrete wall, 28 miles long, across the city of Berlin
11. The belief that if the United States allowed one country to fall to Communism, then many more would follow suit
12. The dropping of thousands of tons of food and medical supplies to starving West Berliners
14. A bomb that rapidly releases nuclear energy
15. relies on a larger nation for political direction and economic support
18. An organization formed in 1949 that bound the United States, Canada, most of Western Europe
19. A US foreign policy doctrine that argued that the Soviet Union needed to be “contained”
20. A world Organization that was formed to prevent war.
21. an economic system based on the private ownership of capital (land, resources and other means of production)

1. a war started by a powerful country in which it does not fight in directly.
2. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society
3. A list of suspected communist who were unable to get work in the movie industry.
4. responsible for the civilian space program
6. an acronym for a committee of the US Congress.
8. The race where the U.S.A and USSR built rockets
9. a foreign policy adopted by Jimmy Carter in 1980. It pledged to protect American allies
13. the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist
16. a period of competition or rivalry between two or more nations, focusing on the production of military technology and equipment
17. A term used to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states