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Across
  1. 3. Economic aid program designed to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of communism
  2. 4. Conflicts in which third parties fight on behalf of larger powers (e.g., Korean War, Vietnam War
  3. 7. A period of easing Cold War tensions in the 1970s
  4. 10. Policy pledging US support to nations threatened by communist expansion.
Down
  1. 1. U.S policy to block the expansion of Soviet/communist influence.
  2. 2. The primary military alliances for the West and East, respectively.
  3. 5. The technique of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster to force the opponent to back down.
  4. 6. Term coined by Winston Churchill describing the ideological and physical divide between Western Europe and the Soviet-controlled East.
  5. 8. A state of political hostility between nations characterized by threats, propaganda, and short of open warfare.
  6. 9. Competition for supremacy in nuclear and conventional weapons.