Cold War Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. a U.S.-sponsored program implemented after World War II to help European countries that had been destroyed in the conflict
  2. 5. proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks
  3. 7. a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
  4. 8. the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict
  5. 9. failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power
  6. 14. Leader of USSR at the End of WW2 / beginning of Cold War
  7. 15. a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II
  8. 17. Leader of USSR at End of Cold War
  9. 18. US President that was in power during the Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis
  10. 20. the guarantee that if one superpower launched a massive nuclear attack, the other would reciprocate by also launching a massive nuclear attack, and both countries would be destroyed (Acronym)
  11. 21. hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War
  12. 22. a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe
  13. 24. an ideology or system based on the idea that the property of a community should be owned collectively and shared among everyone
  14. 25. period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979
Down
  1. 1. means "restructuring" and refers to a series of political and economic reforms meant to kick-start the stagnant 1980s economy
  2. 2. a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  3. 3. the practice of making accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism, and socialism
  4. 4. means increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union
  5. 6. The President who said the famous line, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"
  6. 10. competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the U.S. and the former USSR during the Cold War
  7. 11. the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies
  8. 12. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
  9. 13. The _______________ theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos
  10. 16. competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities
  11. 19. built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin
  12. 23. an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin