Cold War vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Satellites, while not explicitly defined as a single term, the documents describe the Soviet Union’s determination after WWII to prevent further destruction by influencing and controlling surrounding European territories
  2. 4. War, Proxy war, that originally started as a Korean Civil war, but was hijacked by the ideological battle between Communism and Captialism. North Korea was supported by Communist China and Soviet Union, South Korea was supported by Capitalist U.S. War has never officially ended. A ceasefire was signed in 1953
  3. 7. Doctrine, U.S. Policy directly following WWII. U.S. would provide political, military, and economic aid to all nations, as long as they resisted Communism
  4. 8. Theory, The U.S. Policy and belief that if one country in a region turned to Communism, the surrounding countries would eventually fall to Communism as well
  5. 11. Curtain, Term used to describe the ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of the WWII until the end of the Cold War
  6. 12. Leap Forward, an economic campaign in China, intended to modernize the country. While initially successful, it led to the suffering of millions of Chinese citizens
  7. 13. An economic system and political ideology in which all property is owned by the community. Each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs, goods are state owned, and the government is typically totalitarian. Goal is forced equality through
Down
  1. 1. Government seizes land from wealthy owners and divides it up into collective farms to be worked by peasants as part of a plan to modernize
  2. 3. A process introduced by President Nixon to end the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, by pulling U.S. troops and leaving the fight to the South Vietnamese
  3. 5. Military and political alliance formed in 1949 to create and provide a collective security against the Soviet Union and to prevent the spread of Communism
  4. 6. An economic and political ideology where a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. In this system, markets and goods are privately owned, and the Government is typically democratic
  5. 9. War, Proxy war that originally started as a Vietnam Civil war, but was hijacked by the ideological battle between Communism and Capitalism. North Vietnam was supported by Communist China and Soviet Union, South Vietnam was supported by Capitalist U.S. and France.
  6. 10. War, is a conflict where two powerful countries do not fight each other directly, but instead support opposing sides in a third-party conflict to further their own interests.
  7. 13. War, A period of tension following WWII, at the beginning of which is characterized by the ideological struggle between Communism and Capitalism