Cold War & Foreign Policy

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Across
  1. 3. Hit-and-run tactics used by small, mobile fighters
  2. 5. 1950–1953 conflict between communist North and U.S.-backed South Korea
  3. 7. U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism
  4. 10. Idea that if one country went communist, the neighbors would fall too
  5. 11. 1962 standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
  6. 13. 1968 surprise attacks that turned U.S. public opinion against the war
  7. 14. Long conflict in which the U.S. backed South against the North
  8. 15. Western military alliance formed to counter the Soviets
Down
  1. 1. Churchill’s name for the East–West divide in Europe
  2. 2. U.S. pledge to help any nation resist communist takeover
  3. 4. Making wild, evidence-free accusations of communism
  4. 6. Cold War competition to stockpile more nuclear weapons
  5. 8. Tense U.S.–Soviet rivalry without direct combat
  6. 9. U.S. aid program that rebuilt postwar Europe
  7. 12. Widespread American fear of communism in the early Cold War