Cold War

3. a wall separating east and West Berlin built by east Germany to keep them from escaping west
5. more and more Americans moved to suburbs after WWII
8. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
11. nicons strategy for ending US involvement in the Vietnam war
12. code name for the secret US project to set up atomic bombs for use in WWII
14. a plan that the US came up with to revive war torn economies of Europe.

1. a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US during Nixons presidency
2. an alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations, this was in response to the creation of NATO
4. President Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
6. military alliance made up of 12 non Communist countries including the US that support each other if they were to be attacked
7. a group of Cuban exiles organized and supported the US Central Intelligence Agency landed on the southern coast of Cuba in an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro
8. economic and political system in which country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
9. a law passed that provided education and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in WWII
10. a competition of space exploration between the US and and Soviet Union
13. America and USSR competed for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons