Across
- 2. U.S invasion of Cuba along the Bay of Pigs, in an attempt to prevent communism
- 4. the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons related to nuclear technology
- 6. Plan proposed by President Harry Truman, in which he recommended that all Americans have health insurance, the minimum wage be increased, and that all Americans be guaranteed equal rights
- 7. Last of the Big Three meetings during World War II
- 10. U.S Policy to prevent the spread of communism
- 11. A guarded concrete barrier that divided west and East Germany
- 12. Competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies
- 14. 35th President of the United States, promoted the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, was assassinated in 1963
- 17. war between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea)
- 18. An American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II and led United Nations forces in the Korean War.
- 21. Policy that allowed the U.S to assist democratic nations in conflict with outside pressures
- 23. term used for the Joint Security Area, where discussions between North and South Korea still take place
- 24. Eastern European nations that were allied under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War
- 25. also known as the European Recovery Program in which the U.S. provided aid to Western Europe following WWII
- 26. Former leader of the Soviet Union as the First Secretary, negotiated with former President John F. Kennedy to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba
- 28. resulted in Germany being divided into four occupation zones
- 29. Boundary that divides North Korea and South Korea
- 30. Border that separated communist East Europe from non-communist West Europe
- 31. A campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Down
- 1. Former General of the Army in WW2, President of the United States, negotiated an end to the Korean War
- 3. Lead Soviet Union from 1927-1953
- 5. Tension among the two Superpowers and their allies
- 8. U.S supplied West Berlin citizens by air with Food, water, and medicine
- 9. meeting to formulate the United Nations
- 13. USA and Russia
- 15. collective defense treaty established by the Soviet union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
- 16. Soviet Union attempted to block the U.S, Great Britain, and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin
- 19. Plan proposed by President Kennedy in an attempt to establish economic cooperation between the U.S and Latin America.
- 20. an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries
- 22. 33rd U.S President
- 27. 13 day military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba