The Cold War: Early Years

3. Economic plan post WWII to provide financial aid to Europe to stop spread of Communism
6. nation of Europe divided into four, then two zones (one half communist, one half democratic)
8. region of Europe where communism was forced upon them by the USSR
10. the 'race' between the US and USSR to build more and bigger weapons
11. Soviet leader in showdown with Kennedy over Cuba
12. nationalist Chinese create ____ as a free and democratic China after defeat by Mao
13. policy of the US where we pledge to aid any nation experiencing a communist threat (began with intervention in Greece and Turkey)
14. Communist leader of China in 1949
15. attempt by USSR to keep out supplies to Berlin
17. 1962- the closest the world ever came to nuclear war...
21. Allied Military Alliance to stop spread of Communism
22. city divided by that 'hateful wall' which kept citizens on the Eastern Communist side IN
23. first man made object to orbit the earth...begins Space Race

1. how the US thwarted the USSR's Berlin Blockade
2. American general who oversaw the US occupation and 'democratization' of Japan in the Post WWII years
4. 'theory' that the US adopts to not 'crush' communism, but to keep it from spreading outside of present borders
5. Communist Military Alliance to stop 'democratic aggression'
7. the US halted the spread of Communism south of the 38th Parallel in the _____ ______ from 1950-1953
9. philosophy of having nuclear weapons...so you never have to use them:-)
16. Communists known as the Viet Minh gain power in ____ against the French via a combination of Communism/Nationalism/war
18. US/Kennedy's failed attempt to oust Castro from Cuba 1961
19. Communist militarized zone across Eastern Europe...named by Churchill in a political speech
20. term for nations within the sphere of Soviet control (ringed the USSR's border)