Cold War

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Across
  1. 5. the US and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war
  2. 7. president of United States from 1945-1953
  3. 8. War state of political hostility between USSR and US
  4. 11. building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy
  5. 12. alliance formed by US, Great Britain, France, Pakistan, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand to stem communist aggression in the East
  6. 14. emerged as the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1955
  7. 17. a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and prevent further aggressive moves
  8. 18. political system in which private owners control industry
  9. 20. the first human-made space satellite sent by the Soviets to orbit Earth
  10. 22. military alliance joined by Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
  11. 23. the Soviet Union's response to the Marshall Plan
  12. 24. the American and British response to the Soviet blockade
  13. 25. the concrete block barrier separating West Berlin from East Berlin
Down
  1. 1. war that resulted from two separate governments emerging in this country, caused by worsened US and Soviet relations
  2. 2. alliance formed by Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Great Britain and US to prevent Soviet expansion into the Middle East
  3. 3. a long war that resulted from France refusing to let go of Indochina
  4. 4. a war in which the powers in conflict use third parties as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly
  5. 6. a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country
  6. 9. the idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall
  7. 10. confrontation between US and USSR that brought the world closer to nuclear war
  8. 13. invasion of Cuba by exiled Cuban fighters; approved by Kennedy
  9. 15. USSR's response to US, France and Great Britain's plans to create a West German government
  10. 16. political theory derived from Karl Marx; official ideology of USSR
  11. 19. a program that provided $13 billion to rebuild war-torn Europe
  12. 21. alliance formed when Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Netherlands, Great Britain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal and Iceland signed a treaty with United States and Canada