Across
- 2. the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, especially in politics.
- 3. the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.
- 7. a U.S. foreign policy concept during the Cold War (1950s–1980s) holding that if one nation in a region fell to communism, neighboring countries would inevitably fall as well, like a row of dominoes
- 9. the action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
Down
- 1. a Cold War-era defense strategy adopted by the U.S. and NATO in the 1960s to replace "massive retaliation," offering a range of proportional responses to aggression
- 2. being placed on a list of people labelled as untrustworthy, or banned.
- 4. a notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
- 5. compulsory recruitment for military service.
- 6. independent states who are heavily influenced by another, often stronger state
- 8. prolonged geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union