Cold War Crossword

3. U.S. President and former WWII General who oversaw the end of the Korean War.
5. Winston Churchill's term for the symbolic division between Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe and the West.
6. Communist leader of North Korea during the Korean War.
7. The military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states.
8. Economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
12. Leader who established the communist government in China in 1949.
13. Policy promising to support free nations resisting communist takeover with military and financial aid.
17. Western military alliance created to provide collective security against the Soviets.
18. The U.S. program providing economic aid to rebuild post-WWII Western Europe.

1. The US foreign policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism rather than directly confronting it.
2. Crisis initiated by the Soviet Union over currency changes in the German capital.
4. Abbreviation for the global body that authorized the peacekeeping action in the Korean War.
9. Dictatorial leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the Cold War era.
10. General dismissed by President Truman for publicly challenging his policy of limiting the war.
11. Peninsula where the first major "hot" conflict of the containment policy occurred (The ____ War).
14. U.S. President who established the containment policy and made the decision to fire General MacArthur.
15. Economic system based on collective ownership and lack of private enterprise.
16. The conflict characterized by military tension without direct fighting between the two superpowers.