Cold War

2. (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was formed to come to the aid of any other member nation if they were attacked.
5. Joseph ________ led a national campaign to identify communists secretly working in the U.S.
8. Nikita Khruschchev placed these in Cuba, and almost started a nuclear war.
9. If one country fell to communism, then other countries would fall too, is referred to as the ____________.
14. The U.S. became involved in the _________ war, to stop the spread of communism in Asia.
15. the imaginary line that separated Western Europe from Communist Eastern Europe was known as the Iron _______.
16. The United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war were referred to as: ______________.
17. The tension between the United States and Soviet union that many feared would lead to a nuclear war.

1. President JFK initiated a ________________ in Cuba to stop Soviet ships from transporting weapons to Cuba.
3. The United states took part in an ________ over Berlin to assist in bringing supplies to the people of Europe.
4. The United States promised to remove their missiles from _______ if the missiles in Cuba were removed by the Soviet Union.
6. The _________ war ended in a cease fire, and the U.S. withdrew its troops from here.
7. Nikita Khruschchev's main goal was to spread __________ around the globe.
10. The _________ bloc of Europe was communist.
11. The Cuban Missile Crisis almost lead to a ________ war, and was a global concern.
12. The U.S. and the Soviet Union were involved in an _______ race- to build up weapons in case of war.
13. Germany built a _______ to separate East and West Berlin, as a way of preventing people from escaping into democratic West Berlin.