Across
- 3. The dividing line between the Western and Eastern European countries.
- 8. During WWII the Soviet Union sent troops into Japanese occupied Korea and American troops established a presence in Southern Korea. Two separate Korea's emerged, marked by this division. It would be the line of division both before and after the Korean War.
- 9. The Soviets cut off supplies to a city in their zone and the US creatively found a way to deliver supplies for over a year.
- 10. The attempt by the United States to incite a rebellion in Cuba.
- 12. This aid program was directed “not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos” – was used to rebuild Europe.
- 13. This defensive military alliance was the first military alliance that the United States ever entered during peacetime.
Down
- 1. The 13 days in October that made the world fear a nuclear war.
- 2. In 1947 this policy was passed to assist nations in preventing communist takeovers. It initially focused on Greece and Turkey and later opened to all.
- 4. In 1957 the Soviet beat us into space with this.
- 5. After years of using propaganda to discourage people in East Berlin from defecting (abandoning their country) to West Berlin, a wall was constructed in 1961 that sealed shut the entire border between East and West Berlin.
- 6. a military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
- 7. The policy of not letting communism spread.
- 11. The idea that if one country falls to communism the surrounding countries will as well.
