Cold War Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The political theory that if one nation comes under Communist control then neighboring nations
  2. 3. A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air
  3. 6. A theory that proposed a massive build-up of military and weaponry in order to threaten a destructive counter-attack to any potential threat
  4. 9. An ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
  5. 10. To stop the spread of communism
  6. 11. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  7. 14. An investigating committee that investigated what it considered un-American propaganda, and searched out communism
  8. 15. Purposely escalating a dangerous situation to the limit ( brink), while giving the impression that you are willing to go to war
  9. 16. Massive military build-up, especially of nuclear weapons, by both the Soviet Union and the United States in an effort to gain military superiority.
  10. 17. A policy promoted during the latter half of the 1980s in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev
Down
  1. 1. President Truman's policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
  2. 2. An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.
  3. 4. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states
  4. 5. The 1947 plan of US Secretary of State George Marshall to send aid to all European nations that needed it after WW2.
  5. 7. The name given to the Eastern European nations that were under the control of the Soviet Union. ยท Iron Curtain
  6. 8. the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.
  7. 10. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society.
  8. 12. The world's first artificial satellite
  9. 13. Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
  10. 15. of Pigs An unsuccessful invasion of Cuba in 1961, which was sponsored by the United States