Across
- 2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an international organization composed of the US, Canada, Britain, and a number of European countries: established by the North Atlantic Treaty (1949) for purposes of collective security.
- 5. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
- 7. a competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.
- 9. a relaxing of tension, esp. between nations.
- 12. the attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959-60 to solve the country's economic problems by labor-intensive industrialization
- 17. the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx; a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society
- 19. a state with a dominant position in the international system which has the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests.
- 20. Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms
- 21. Vietnamese leader and first president of North Vietnam (1954-1969). His army was victorious in the French Indochina War (1946-1954), and he later led North Vietnam's struggle to defeat the U.S.
Down
- 1. the first non–communist party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country.
- 3. competition between countries for superiority in quantity and quality of military arms.
- 4. a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy; was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the Berlin airlift.
- 5. an Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution; active in other Latin American countries; was captured and executed by the Bolivian army
- 6. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union—the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control.
- 8. a war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.
- 10. an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion.
- 11. stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or it would spread to neighboring countries.
- 13. the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s
- 14. a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
- 15. speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
- 16. A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
- 18. a Chinese communist revolutionary, politician and socio-political theorist.