Contextualizing the Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. A scientist who helped create atomic bombs before asking for their use to be limited
  2. 5. The back-and-forth one-upsmanship of weapons development
  3. 10. The US-installed leader of South Korea
  4. 12. A pro-Communist but non-aligned country
  5. 14. A socio-economic ideology where you get what you need but have no real choice in what it is
  6. 15. Country that was controlled by communists starting in 1949
  7. 17. A defensive alliance created to counter the pressures of 6 down
  8. 18. Global superpower in the wake of WWII
  9. 20. An economic ideology where are free to "vote with your dollar"
Down
  1. 1. US President for much of the Korean War
  2. 2. A political ideology where all are free to "vote with their ballot"
  3. 4. The most powerful US nuclear weapon tested to date
  4. 6. A defensive alliance created to stop the spread of communism
  5. 7. The general feeling of the era where many feared World War III could start at any time.
  6. 8. In 1954, the US became bogged down in trying to stop the spread of communism into this SE Asian country
  7. 9. Where the United States CIA covertly supported the overthrow of a democratically elected leader in 1954
  8. 11. "Mutually Assured _____"
  9. 13. The first atomic bomb was dropped here in 1945
  10. 14. Cuban revolutionary who successfully deposed a US-backed government in 1959
  11. 16. Leader credited with the rise of the USSR and casting the Iron Curtain
  12. 19. A unit of explosive measurement equal to the force created by 1 million tons of TNT