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  1. 4. System in which one person runs a country
  2. 7. Policy in the USA in the 1920s which argued USA should not get involved in international disputes
  3. 8. A vast nation that stretches from eastern Europe across the Eurasian land mass, it was the most powerful republic of the former Soviet Union
  4. 11. Terms agreed at Yalta conference in 1945- Western powers agreed that Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe would be under what
  5. 14. Terms generally used to refer to USA and it’s Allies in the Cold War
  6. 15. An arrangement between two countries to help or defend each other, usually in trade or war
  7. 16. Political, social and economic system centered on democracy and individual freedoms such as free speech, political beliefs and freedom to do business
  8. 19. Political, social and economic system involving state control of economy and less emphasis on individual rights than capitalism
  9. 20. Policy of President Truman from 1947 to promise to help any state threatened by communism
  10. 22. The former Russian empire after it became a communist state in the 1920’s
Down
  1. 1. policy of Britain and France in the 1930’s allowing Hitler to break terms of the TOV
  2. 2. Conference between USA, USSR and Britain in 1945 to decide the shape of the world after WW2 ended
  3. 3. Action by the USSR to cut road, rail and canal links between West Berlin and the rest of Germany. Aim was to force USA and Allies to withdraw from West Berlin
  4. 5. Political system in which population votes for its government in elections held on a regular basis
  5. 6. Operation in 1948-49 using aircraft to transport supplies to West Berlin which had been cut off by the USSR
  6. 9. A country in a dominant international position that is able to influence events
  7. 10. Orginisation to spread communist ideas and also make sure communist states followed ideas of communism practiced in the USSR
  8. 12. Programme of US economic aid to Western Europe from 1947-51. Aim was to aid economic recovery but also to prevent more states becoming communist
  9. 13. Term used by Churchill in 1946 to describe separation of Eastern and Western Europe into communist and non-communist blocs
  10. 17. Conference held in August 1945 between president Truman, Stalin Churchill and Attlee which discussed major issues including the atomic bomb and Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe
  11. 18. Nuclear weapons, only used in WW2 by USA against Japan but a constant threat in the Cold War
  12. 21. Abbreviation for the alliance formed by the USA and other western states which promised to defend members against any attack, particularly the USSR