Early Years of the Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. An area, often along the border between two military powers, that no military forces are allowed to enter.
  2. 5. The working class in a society.
  3. 6. Premier of the Soviet Union (1958–64), led a policy of de-Stalinization. He pursued a policy of “peaceful coexistence” with the capitalist West.
  4. 7. An agency that collects and analyzes intelligence gathered in part by agents operating in foreign countries.
  5. 8. The sudden overthrow of a government by violent force.
  6. 10. The developing nations of the world
  7. 11. George Kennan’s analysis of Stalin’s speech in Feb 1946 that he sent to the U.S. secretary of state; helped shape U.S. foreign policy for decades.
  8. 16. Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) A military alliance formed in 1949, to establish collective security against the Soviet Union.
  9. 18. The hostile but nonviolent struggle for power between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
  10. 19. A war fought from 1950 to 1953, where the communist North invaded the democratic South.
  11. 21. A U.S. plan, implemented from 1948 to 1951, to aid in the economic recovery of Europe after World War II by offering certain European countries substantial funds.
  12. 22. A nation that is so powerful that it influences or controls less powerful states.
  13. 23. A U.S. foreign policy, established in 1947; providing economic and military aid to countries—initially Greece and Turkey—that were attempting to resist communism.
  14. 24. A foreign policy characterized by a willingness to push a dangerous situation to the brink, or edge, of war rather than give in to an opponent
  15. 25. The Soviet blockade of the German city of Berlin, implemented from 1948 to 1949 to halt land travel into the city in hopes of forcing the United States, Great Britain, and France to give up their plan to combine their occupation zones into a single, democratic West German state
  16. 26. An agreement signed in 1955, to establish a military alliance for mutual defense.
  17. 27. A bomb created by fusing atoms.
  18. 28. A secret political, economic, or military operation that aims to shape events or influence affairs in a foreign country in order to support the initiating nation's foreign policy.
Down
  1. 2. Ballistic Missiles Long-range missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads to distant continents.
  2. 3. A foreign policy in which a nation develops a weapons arsenal so deadly that another nation will not dare attack.
  3. 4. A panel established in 1946 to propose ways to control atomic energy and restrict the development of nuclear weapons.
  4. 9. The ideological barrier that existed between Eastern and Western Europe from 1945 to 1990.
  5. 12. An agency that Advises the president on national security issues and oversees the actions of the CIA.
  6. 13. After World War II, the U.S. foreign policy practice of attempting to restrict the expansion of Soviet influence around the world
  7. 14. The principle that either side would respond to a nuclear attack by launching its own missiles, which helped prevent the Cold War from becoming a hot war.
  8. 15. The Allied nations resisted the blockade by airlifting food and supplies into Berlin.
  9. 17. A competition between nations to achieve the more powerful weapons arsenal
  10. 20. The dominating influence of one country or group over others.