Cold War

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  1. 3. policy of the USA to keep communism from spreading
  2. 4. founded in 1949 to create a common defense for Western Europe and North America
  3. 9. name given to the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America
  4. 11. leader of the USSR during the Cold War
  5. 14. nickname for the non use of nuclear weapons.. both countries knew if they fired a nuke, everyone would die on both sides
  6. 16. event in which Americans and Russians were scared, it looked like WW3 would happen when nukes would be launched from Cuba
  7. 18. committee of the United States House of Representatives to investigate potential communist in America
  8. 19. competition between the USSR and USA to control space
  9. 21. helped push propaganda and helped to create the "Red Scare" in America
  10. 22. US program to aid Western Europe after WW2. Provided more than $15 Billion
  11. 25. major leader of USSR during the Cold War
  12. 26. island country fairly close to USA that Khrushchev placed nuclear weapons during the Cold War
  13. 27. state of political hostility between the USA and Russia after WW2
  14. 28. system of government in which the "people" of the country rule
  15. 31. group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities
  16. 32. ________ theory- idea that if one country became communist, many more would follow like a chain reaction
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  1. 1. nickname of the separation from eastern Europe and Western Europe
  2. 2. Allied forces of WW2 make this to help keep peace
  3. 5. practice of pushing dangerous policy right up to the limit
  4. 6. 37th presedent, made to retire after being impeached
  5. 7. political theory that focuses on all people being truly equal
  6. 8. build through a major city in Germany, separating the city into East and West
  7. 10. first US citizens to be convicted and executed for espionage during the "Red Scare"
  8. 12. leader of the communist movement in Vietnam
  9. 13. government ruled by one leader who usually took the power by force
  10. 15. separation line in Korea that separated the North from South and Communist from Anti-communist
  11. 17. agreement that Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Eastern Germany would protect each other.
  12. 20. leader of the USA during the Cold War
  13. 23. 34th president of the USA
  14. 24. type of weapons developed at the end of WW2 that completely changed the power of bombs
  15. 28. reduction of tensions with the US and Russia
  16. 29. person who took over Cuba and made if follow a communist route
  17. 30. became president after Kennedy was assassinated - led US to Vietnam