Across
- 4. The practice of pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome is known as ___.
- 6. Plan The ___ was the U.S Program of economic aid to any European country to help them rebuild after WWII.
- 9. ___ was the Senator from Wisconsin who had a list of supposed communists who had infiltrated in the government.
- 11. One reason the US and the Soviet Union didn't agree was because the Soviet Union was a ___country while the US was a capitalist country.
- 16. U.S foreign policy in which the U.S. tried to stop the spread of Communism by creating alliances became known as ___.
- 18. The conflict between the US and the Soviet Union in which neither nation directly confronted the other on the battlefield, but competed for the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet is known as the ___.
- 20. The Republicans were able to take back the presidency in 1952 when ___ was elected as the 34th president.
- 21. A direct result of the Allies unifying their portions of German, Stalin placed a ___ around West Berlin.
- 22. The ___ is the border between North and South Korea.
- 23. A List of people who were condemned for having a Communist background were often put on the ___.
Down
- 1. The ___ was when the United States and Britain flew food and supplies to those stuck in West Berlin for 12 months.
- 2. This country entered into the Korean War on the side of North Korea in hopes of spreading Communism down the Korean Peninsula
- 3. Competition between two nations to gain an advantage in weapons is known as a ___.
- 5. The group of actors who were considered to be "unfriendly" witnesses and refused to cooperate with investigations into supposed communist influencers in Hollywood.
- 7. This government committee was tasked with Investigating the Communist influence in the movie industry.
- 8. The ___ was tasked with investigating government employees and to dismiss those who were found to be disloyal to the U.S. government.
- 10. A country whose policies are dictated or heavily influenced by another country, such as Poland in 1950 is called a ___.
- 12. After Stalin died in 1953, ___ took over control of the Soviet Union in 1958.
- 13. ___ was accused of being a Communist by Whittaker Chambers and was sentenced to 44 months in jail.
- 14. In response to the Berlin Blockade in 1949 ten Western European nations joined with the United States to form a defensive military alliance called ___.
- 15. The ___'s goal was to decode messages sent by Soviet intelligence agencies to determine if there were Soviet spies within the US Government.
- 17. The ___ was the metaphorical boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe and the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
- 19. The ___ were convicted of espionage and sending classified information on the Manhattan Project to the Soviets. They were found guilty and put to death in 1953.
- 24. Doctrine The U.S. Policy of giving economic and military aid to FREE nations threatened by internal or external opponents was known as ___.