Cold war vocab

1. The House Un-American Activities Committee
4. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the west and non-Soviet-controlled areas
6. a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
7. a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress on the Situation in the Middle East"
9. the promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism, used by anti-leftist proponents
10. a United States policy to stop Soviet expansion during the Cold War
11. one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
13. transfer from private to state ownership or control
15. a Russian politician who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War
16. a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War
18. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research
20. a conflict in which the belligerents participating in the war do not expend all of each of the participants' available resources at their disposal

2. a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad
3. a military doctrine and nuclear strategy in which a state commits itself to retaliate in much greater force in the event of an attack
5. Central Intelligence Agency
8. state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc
12. a competition between two or more parties to have the best armed forces
14. the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence
17. The Alien Registration Act of 1940
19. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization