Across
- 2. a competition between nations for superiority in the development of weapons especially between the US and the Soviet Union
- 6. the wall that separated communist east Germany from Democratic West Germany
- 7. a policy of preventing the expansion of communism to other countries by creating alliances or providing economic or military support to countries threatened by a communist take-over
- 8. he reduced the use of terror and released millions of political prisoners
- 12. When the United States and the Soviet Union competed with one another to conquer outer space
- 13. an organization consisting of the United States, Canada, Great Britain and other European countries for the purpose of collective security
- 14. US President Harry Truman’s policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by ideology
- 15. a United States program (1948-1952) providing financial aid to Western European countries for reconstruction after World War 11
- 16. effort by the United States, Great Britain and France to thwart the Blockade of Berlin by flying supplies to West Berlin
Down
- 1. a military alliance established in 1955 of Eastern European countries, including the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, and Romania for the purpose of collective security
- 3. countries controlled by a more powerful nation
- 4. period in 1958, in which the Soviet Union blockaded all land and rail routes into West Berlin in an attempt to create a unified East Germany by forcing the US, Great Britain and France to turn over control of West Berlin
- 5. the term for an invisible political line, divided Europe
- 9. European economic community
- 10. Southeast Treaty Organization, an alliance that included the United States, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia, and New Zealand
- 11. Central Treaty Organization had six members--Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain, and the United States