The Cold War

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  1. 3. international crisis that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union, in 1948–49, to force the Western Allied powers (the United States, the United Kingdom, and France) to abandon their post-World War II jurisdictions in West Berlin.
  2. 4. a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power
  3. 8. formally European Recovery Program, (April 1948–December 1951), U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive.
  4. 10. purpose is to guarantee the freedom and security of its members through political and military means
  5. 11. confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union
  6. 12. a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos
  7. 13. the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
  8. 14. major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed missiles in Cuba
Down
  1. 1. provides up to 36 months of education benefits to eligible Service members and Veterans
  2. 2. the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II
  3. 5. a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.
  4. 6. the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.
  5. 7. The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty
  6. 9. the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.