Defining the Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. She was the British Prime Minister during much the Cold War
  2. 6. Communist leader of Cuba
  3. 7. This House of Representatives committee hunted for communists
  4. 9. The _____ Union was the superpower that fought the cold war against the United States
  5. 10. America airlifted supplies into this German city during a crisis in 1954
  6. 11. The US senior who claimed there were communists in the US government.
  7. 13. President who proposed a "massive retaliation" to any attack in 1954
  8. 14. A _____ weapon uses nuclear forces to create an enormous explosion
  9. 17. A policy by which the Soviet government was more open and allowed for some level of freedom of speech
  10. 18. The United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war were often called by this name to reflect their military strength
  11. 19. Communist leader of North Vietnam
  12. 20. Soviet-led alliance of communist nations during the Cold War
Down
  1. 2. The ____ were a husband and wife executed for giving secrets to the soviets.
  2. 3. This US policy called for not allowing communism to spread.
  3. 4. The "____ 10" were blacklisted from show-business for refusing to answer questions about communism.
  4. 5. The alliance of Democratic countries during the Cold War.
  5. 8. An easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the US
  6. 12. The ___ plan provided aid to help rebuild the democracies of Europe after ww2.
  7. 15. Churchill used this term for the imaginary division between east and west Europe
  8. 16. This was built to keep Germans from fleeing into the Western part of the capital