The Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. Mutual defense treaty by the Soviet Union to strengthen its hold over its satellite nations in Eastern Europe created as a response to NATO
  2. 3. an economic system with private ownership of goods, and prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined by competition in a free market.
  3. 4. The first successful satellite in space launched by the Soviet Union
  4. 7. an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, signed by 51 founding countries in 1945
  5. 9. a war between north Korea (with the support of china and the soviet union) and south Korea (with the support of the united states) from 1950-1953
  6. 12. led the Soviet Union during the height of the cold war, serving as a leader from 1958 to 1964, he instigated the Cuban missile crisis
  7. 14. the turning point of the Vietnam War
  8. 15. the policy of President Truman to provide military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece or any country threatened by communism
  9. 19. authorized president Lyndon Johnson to "take all necessary to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" by the communist government of North Vietnam
  10. 20. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism around the world
  11. 21. Political theory advocating a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs, a single authoritarian party controls but the political economic systems
  12. 22. idea if one key nation in a region fell to Communism, others would follow liked toppling dominoes, the theory was used by many American leaders to justify American intervention in the Vietnam War
Down
  1. 1. program by which the United States gave $13 billion of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II
  2. 3. a confrontation between the united states and soviet union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the "hottest" periods of the cold war
  3. 4. a competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to accomplish space related developments first
  4. 5. splits the Korean Peninsula in half creating a buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea, it’s the most militarized border on the earth
  5. 6. a time of political hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1945-1991 characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare
  6. 8. a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War 2 to strengthen international ties between member states
  7. 10. a witch hunt against alleged communist in the US government and other institutions carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy from 1950–1954, most were not communist
  8. 11. marked increase in the birthrate following World War II (born 1946–1964)
  9. 13. military operation led by the US in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, had cut off supply routes
  10. 16. term coined by Winston Churchill to describe an imaginary boundary in Europe separating the communist Soviet bloc in the democratic nations in Western Europe
  11. 17. military conflict (1954-1975) between South Vietnam supported by the United States forces and communist North Vietnam. The war resulted in a North Vietnamese victory and unification of Vietnam under communist rule.
  12. 18. a communist lead army and guerilla force in Southie in on that for us government and was supported by North Vietnam