Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. Southern Democrats split with the rest of the party over civil rights issues and created this party led by Strom Thurmond
  2. 8. U.S. policy to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressure," provided $400 million in aid to Greece & Turkey
  3. 9. Congress passed despite Truman's veto, law that limited the power of unions after the war
  4. 12. Jobs after WWII were often taken from women and minorities in favor of who?
  5. 13. a term coined by Churchill referring to the sharp divide between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe
  6. 15. an alliance created by the Soviets as a reaction to NATO, it included the Soviets and her satellite nations in Eastern Europe
  7. 16. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a treaty in which each country pledged to defend other members should anyone be attacked, it was essentially an alliance including the U.S., Canada, Iceland, France, Britain, and other Western European countries
Down
  1. 1. a paranoia made worse by two events in 1949 - the Soviets have an atomic bomb & China falls to Communism
  2. 2. U.S. foreign policy which focused on stopping the spread of communism by providing economic and military aid to countries opposing the Soviets
  3. 3. Germany was divided into 4 of these after the war, U.S., Britain, France, and the Soviet Union each had control of one, the Soviet one included the capital which was also divided
  4. 5. an era of high tension and better rivalry between the U.S. and Soviet Union
  5. 6. the Soviet Union blocked all access to the capital of Germany so the U.S., Britain, and France organized this huge effort to get an average of 7,000 tons of supplies into the capital each day, after 10 months the Soviets ended the blockade realizing that the U.S., Britain, and France would not give up their part of the capital
  6. 7. he refused to allow free and fair elections in countries he had controlled during the war
  7. 10. proposed by Sec. of State George Marshall, provided $13 billion dollars in aid to 17 different European countries to help them rebuild after the war, Stalin would not allow Eastern European countries under his control to accept U.S. money through the Marshall Plan, this plan is considered very successful in allowing Western Europe to recover after the war so that the countries did not fall to communism
  8. 11. the title of Truman's domestic programs, included ideas for a federal health insurance program and increased funding for schools but the Republican led Congress did not support it, Truman's focus was soon shifted to problems in Korea
  9. 14. a dramatic rise in the birthrate