Early Cold War

1. an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace
6. the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries
8. he action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
9. a treaty that established a mutual-defense organization
10. a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
13. one of the first major international crises of the Cold War.
14. American foreign policy that pledges American support for democracies against authoritarian threats.

2. an alliance of countries from Europe and North America
3. a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state,
4. a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
5. a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare.
7. fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States
11. a type of government as well as an economic system
12. American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe