Across
- 4. Before leaving office, President Eisenhower warned against a military industrial complex -- in other words, a dangerous relationship that had formed between the military and the _____ industry.
- 7. To counter the blockade and to keep West Berlin from turning to communism, the U.S. started an 11-month _____.
- 8. The nickname of the imaginary line between the communist east and the democratic-capitalist west.
- 11. After U.S. financial aid was squandered by the Nationalists and _____ fell to communism, the United States upped their anti-communist stance and efforts.
- 12. The U.S. policy aimed to help out countries economically with $ aid to encourage them away from communism; the other "half of the walnut"
- 14. The 2nd Red Scare seemed justified when the likes of Alger Hiss and the married couple the _____ were convicted of espionage.
- 16. The first satellite to successfully orbit the earth by the Soviet Union -- sent the U.S. into a panic, fearful we were falling behind.
- 17. Eager to separate themselves from communists, many _____ made decisions to enable screening of their employees, sign oaths of loyalty, and even expel groups who refused to remove Communists leaders.
- 18. After the CIA leaked Nikita Khrushchev's speech denouncing some of the harsher communist policies to _____, a rebellion started that would soon be crushed by the Soviet Union.
- 20. The U.S. _____ was used to influence and/or thwart developing nations (i.e. Iran, Guatemala) away from communist governments/influence through covert operations.
- 22. The Red Scare infiltrated out culture to the point that schools were building bomb shelters, having duck and cover drills -- but sadly it would provide no real protection against the deadly _____.
- 24. Under FBI Director _____'s leadership, HUAC was created, agents sent to infiltrate communists groups, and thousands of telephones were wiretapped.
Down
- 1. The U.S. policy committing to the use of military force to protect a country or nation from communist influence or invasion.
- 2. President Truman's _____ was meant to calm people's fears and suspicions as it was meant to screen all federal employees as a show of transparency, but it actually made things worse.
- 3. After the other 3 merged their zones, the Soviet Union responded with the _____.
- 5. The South Korean/UN forces looked to achieve victory, driving the North Korean forces back to the Yalu River, until at which point the ______ came to their aid.
- 6. The _____ ended close to where it started, at the 38th parallel known as the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone).
- 9. Senator _____ made a name and reputation for himself by ruthlessly investigating suspected government officials with communists ties; he claimed he had a list of 205 of them
- 10. Alliance created to protect against a communist invasion or attack.
- 12. In 1946 American cryptographers cracked the Soviet spy code, allowing them to read 3,000 messages between _____ and the U.S. -- it was called Project Venona.
- 13. After it was known that the Soviet Union had obtained the information on the ______ through espionage, this effectively began the 2nd Red Scare.
- 15. President Eisenhower thought that the British had made a ["muck of things"] with the fight over the _____, as Egypt ended up turning to the Soviet Union for aid.
- 19. In 1953, the more powerful _____ bomb was tested in the Soviet Union.
- 21. U.S. policy of keeping communism within its current borders and not allowing it to spread.
- 23. After WWII, Germany was divided into 4 zones, each controlled by the Soviet Union, the U.S., Great Britain and _____.