Cold War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. vaccine, vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis
  2. 7. Civil defense, administer the national civil defense program and to coordinate military
  3. 8. war, a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
  4. 11. Hiss Case, former U.S. State Department official
  5. 13. plan, the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically
  6. 14. The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north
  7. 16. the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
  8. 17. blockade, an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France
  9. 20. boom, a temporary marked increase in the birth rate
  10. 21. conference, a meeting of three World War II allies
  11. 23. Trial, A court case involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg an American couple who were executed in 1953 as spies for the Soviet Union
  12. 24. Age, another term for nuclear age.
  13. 25. the practice or principle of giving a group priority over each individual in it.
  14. 27. An unincorporated community of southeast New York on western Long Island
  15. 30. atomic energy, manage the development use and control of atomic or nuclear energy for military and civilian applications.
  16. 31. principle of deterrence founded on the notion that a nuclear attack
  17. 32. conference, a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945
  18. 33. curtain, a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
Down
  1. 1. curtain, a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism
  2. 2. the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
  3. 4. leadership or dominance especially by one country or social group over others
  4. 5. sympathizers, a potential communist because he or she holds Communist political views
  5. 6. created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and rebel activities on the part of private citizens
  6. 9. workers or working-class people regarded collectively
  7. 10. plan, European Recovery Program
  8. 12. race, a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons
  9. 15. a vociferous campaign against alleged communists
  10. 18. highway system, a network of U.S. highways connecting the 48 contiguous states and most of the cities with populations
  11. 19. deal, equitable treatment
  12. 22. war, the Korean conflict fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations supported by the United States
  13. 26. pact, a military treaty and association of E European countries
  14. 28. doctrine, the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection
  15. 29. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization,