Across
- 6. men came back from war and got married to their sweethearts and lots of babies were born
- 8. 1950s music. Elvis.
- 9. finding people and interrogating and imprisoning people who are suspected of being communist, usually against their constitutional rights, like the 4th amendment
- 10. US was only one with nuclear capabilities, this protection now extended to all NATO members
- 12. began in the 1920s after WWI and continued after WW2 again, the fear of communists. Red stands for communism
- 15. offered military and economic aid to any democratic nation under threat from authoritarian forces
Down
- 1. is the policy to contain communism where it exists and not let it spread anywhere else
- 2. the concept if one country falls to communism, especially asian countries, the countries around it will fall as well, like dominos
- 3. Servicemen's Readjustment Act, paid for college and homes
- 4. military spending increases to build up the military. US does fine, Russia suffers financially
- 5. was a group of directors, actors, producers,etc. who refused to cooperate with HUAC and were blacklisted and arrested for contempt of Congress
- 7. the soviets reacted to the merge by blockading West Berlin - cut off all highways and railroad links to the West
- 11. the line on the map that separates democratic countries from communist countries
- 13. massive aid be given to countries recovering from WWII to help rebuild their economies
- 14. countries that form a treaty alliance after WW2 to protect each other from communism