Across
- 2. more than 40 countries of the UN sent troops, equipment, or other aid to South Korea during this war
- 5. The secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 8. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states
- 11. Ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union
- 14. When the cold war started (A year spelled out)
- 15. First named the European Recovery Program, but better known as
- 16. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
- 17. Economic system where the government decides how wealth is distributed
- 18. Proposed by Pres. Harry S. Truman to justify sending military aid to Greece and Turkey in the 1940s
- 19. Event in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
- 20. Military alliance originally established in 1949 to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II
Down
- 1. Communist leader of China who was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people during his rule
- 3. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945
- 4. What crisis occurred from October 16th 1962 to October 29th
- 6. 33rd president of the United States
- 7. A U.S. foreign policy aimed at checking the alleged expansionist intentions of the Soviet Union
- 9. Created by the Communist government after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
- 10. Described a period of intense anti-communism in the United States during the early 1950s
- 12. Economic system based on private ownership, working hard, and rich getting richer
- 13. Countries subject to Soviet domination located on the western border of U.S.S.R