The Cold War Pt.1

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Across
  1. 2. keeping something within limits or boundaries, preventing its spread or expansion
  2. 7. a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and general who led the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 until his death in 1975.
  3. 8. Central Intelligence Agency a key player in American intelligence gathering and counter-intelligence efforts, focusing on the Soviet Union and its allies
  4. 11. the House Un-American Activities Committee which was charged with identifying Communist threats to the United States.
  5. 12. a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
  6. 16. a meeting of the "Big Three" (US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin) to discuss the post-World War II reorganization of Europe and the fate of Germany
  7. 19. an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, cooperation, and sustainable development among nations through diplomacy, dialogue, and collaboration
  8. 21. a military alliance of 32 countries from North America and Europe.
  9. 22. a country that is nominally independent but heavily influenced or controlled by a more powerful nation
  10. 23. focused on the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its satellites. The United States built up a stockpile of nuclear weapons and nuclear delivery systems to deter military threats and save money while cutting back on expensive Army combat units.
  11. 24. a fortified concrete and wire barrier that physically separated East Berlin from West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, built by the East German government to prevent people from fleeing to the West
  12. 26. a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries in response to the formation of NATO
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  1. 1. sponsored the early Soviet space program and enacted reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions.
  2. 3. a US foreign policy established in 1947, pledged American support to nations resisting communist expansion, particularly in Greece and Turkey, marking a shift towards containment of communism
  3. 4. a line of latitude, 38 degrees north of the equator, that roughly marks the border between North and South Korea
  4. 5. a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and led the country from its establishment until his death in 1976.
  5. 6. The political practice of publicizing accusations of disloyalty or subversion with insufficient regard to evidence; and The use of methods of investigation and accusation regarded as unfair, in order to suppress opposition.]
  6. 9. the political, military, and ideological barrier that separated communist Eastern Europe from the non-communist West during the Cold War, symbolized by physical barriers and ideological divisions
  7. 10. an American married couple convicted of espionage and executed during the Cold War for allegedly providing the Soviet Union with secret information about the U.S. nuclear weapons program. They were the first American civilians executed for espionage during peacetime.
  8. 13. the significant increase in birth rates following World War II, specifically between 1946 and 1964.
  9. 14. a US initiative providing economic aid to Western European countries after World War II to help them rebuild and prevent the spread of communism
  10. 15. a Cold War-era operation where the United States and its allies supplied West Berlin with vital goods by air after the Soviet Union blockaded all ground routes into the city in 1948
  11. 17. a Soviet Union satellite.
  12. 18. a conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between 1950 and 1953, primarily between North Korea (supported by China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (supported by the United States and the UN).
  13. 20. (Demilitarized Zone) is a security zone between an organization's internal network and the public internet
  14. 25. A Red Scare is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism.