Cold War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Supreme Court case that decided students had 1st Amendment rights even in schools; started when students wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War
  2. 6. political system that creates a system with no social classes where property is collectively owned
  3. 8. major military conflict of the Cold War; very unpopular in the US (1950-1975)
  4. 13. period after WWII in which the US and Soviet Union competed to spread or block the spread of communism
  5. 14. operation by the US and UK that airlifted food and supplies into West Berlin
  6. 15. US Secretary of State that suggested that the way to contain communism was to give money to European governments for them to rebuild
  7. 16. suggests that the first step in a country becoming communist is establishing a dictator
Down
  1. 1. the East German government prevented people from leaving or entering West Berlin
  2. 2. massacre of four students at an Ohio University during an anti-war protest
  3. 3. concrete and barbed wire barrier between East and West Berlin that was built to prevent Easterners from defecting to the West
  4. 5. first military conflict of the Cold War (1950-1953)
  5. 7. imaginary barrier that divided communist Eastern Europe from Democratic Western Europe
  6. 9. US policy of preventing the spread of communism
  7. 10. a war started by a country in another country (ex: Korean War)
  8. 11. suggests that the struggle between rich businessmen and everyday workers would lead to a communist revolution
  9. 12. competition between the US and Soviet Union to send a permanent satellite to space first