Cold War

2. a free market economy in which wealth and property are owned by private people and competition drives the market
6. A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to explore space and achieve important “firsts,” like launching satellites and sending humans to the moon.
9. A term used to describe the invisible boundary that divided Western (democratic) countries and Eastern (communist) countries in Europe during the Cold War.
10. symbolic of the end of the cold war
11. cold war turned hot
13. After WWII, the US and USSR emerged as these.
14. if one country turned communist, others would follow

1. government by the people
3. described USSR's economy at the end of the cold war
4. emerged as the world's superpower after the Cold War
5. designed to provide financial aid to war torn countries in Europe after WWII
7. A competition between countries to build more and stronger weapons than each other, especially nuclear weapons, to gain power and protect themselves
8. The United States was concerned about this spreading
12. the closest the USSR and US game to fighting each other during the Cold War