Across
- 2. a military alliance to ensure collective defense and security among its member countries
- 4. the struggle to gain weapons superiority
- 8. A war against communism fought between the US and the UN vs North Korea and its supporters
- 10. declared that the United States would provide political, military, and economic assistance to countries threatened by communism to contain the spread of Soviet influence
- 11. law that introduced immigrant quotas for all nations to prevent perceived threats like communism; discriminated against immigrants from Asia and South and Central Europe
- 12. a military alliance with the Soviet Union’s satellite nations in eastern Europe
- 14. The multinational military organization established in 1950 to support South Korea during the Korean War
- 16. policy that recognized the possibility that Eastern Europe was already lost to communism
- 17. symbolized the political, ideological, and physical divide between Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War
- 19. long range rockets used by the Soviets
- 20. A group that included large industrial companies, corporate companies, and scientific communities focused on the military
Down
- 1. a system where nations agree to act together to defend any member who is attacked, treating it as a threat to all
- 3. the smear tactics used by Senator McCarthy in the Senate where he used baseless accusations on top of unprovable charges
- 5. called for the nations of Europe to draw up a program for economic recovery from the war which the U.S. would support with financial aid
- 6. a direct military engagement between the two competing nations
- 7. countries subject to Soviet domination on the western borders of the Soviet Union that would act as a buffer zone against attacks
- 9. The line used to separate North and South Korea between Soviet and American control
- 13. the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world
- 15. the ability to get to the verge without getting into the war
- 18. policy of making the military power of the United States and its allies so strong that no enemy would dare attack for fear of retaliation
