Stop Communism and help out abroad!

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Across
  1. 4. International organization charted in 1945 to resolve conflicts between nations
  2. 7. US program of giving aid to European countries to help then rebuild their economies after WWII
  3. 8. The United States foreign policy of containing communism at all costs
  4. 9. An attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.
  5. 10. Rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union (and countries under it's influence) and democratic countries of the Western world, under the leadership of the United States
Down
  1. 1. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
  2. 2. a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.
  3. 3. The US got involved because they wanted to contain the spread of communism and they did not want North Korea to have full control over the Korean Peninsula.
  4. 5. In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.
  5. 6. The United States had this theory that if the one country of Southeast Asia fell to communism, then all would fall, causing a domino effect.