Across
- 5. changes made to the way in which a country is run in order to make if more fair and equitable for all citizens who live there
- 7. the part of Asia that contains the countries of North Korea and South Korea
- 9. a war in the early 1950s between North Korea (with support from China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea
- 11. a group of democratic countries, including the United States and many countries in Europe, who agreed to protect each other; if one country in the group is attacked, the others will come to help
- 13. the Soviet Union’s response to the formation of NATO, it was a group of communist nations who agreed to help each other when neither side wins, both just agree to stop fighting, like a tie
- 14. The 33rd President of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. He is known for implementing the Marshall Plan
Down
- 1. a President Truman's promise to help countries that were threatened by communism
- 2. Marshall Plan also known as the European Recovery Program, it was the plan for rebuilding Western Europe after the destruction of WWII
- 3. a country’s plan for how they deal with other countries
- 4. a political system in which power is held by the people and citizens have the right to vote and elect representatives to make decisions and laws on their behalf
- 6. this was not a traditional war with battles; it was a long period of tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
- 8. a political system in which the government owns most of the property and makes most of the decisions
- 10. theory policy developed by the U.S. following WWII, it said that communism would not be allowed to spread any further than it already existed without a fight
- 12. the U.S. Secretary of State who came up with most of the European Recovery Programs