Modern History Unit 2 AOS 1

3. USSR financial response to the Marshall Plan
5. Also known as the European Recovery Program (ERP) started in June 1947 (2)
7. Gulf where US warship was supposedly attacked by North Vietnam, triggering US deployment
9. Federal Republic of Germany est. 23 May 1949
12. Leader of USSR from 1953 - 1964 after Stalin’s death
14. Final leader of the USSR (1985 - 1991) who introduced new reforms
15. Major delivery of supplies via airlift (24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949) (2)
19. Soviet policy of restructuring, or moving to a capitalist market economy
20. German Democratic Republic est. 7 October 1949

1. Competition to build the most powerful weapons (2)
2. US foreign policy, influenced by the Long Telegram (2)
4. First proxy war, Communist supported by China and the USSR
5. Search and destroy massacre by demoralised US troops in Vietnam (2)
6. Phrase to describe anti-communist hysteria in the USA (2)
8. Crisis involving US President Kennedy and Fidel Castro (2)
10. Soviet response to the creation of NATO (2)
11. Sustained bombing Operation by US in Vietnam
13. Aka National Liberation Front from North Vietnam (2)
16. The author of the Long Telegram (22nd February 1946) (2)
17. Tactics used by the Viet Cong against US forces, involving traps, tunnels and jungle cover (2)
18. Series of events across soviet Eastern Bloc states gaining their independence in 1989