The Cold War Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Government owns all businesses and land and the people do not vote
  2. 3. war Conflict in the 1960s and 1970 with US involvement to try to keep commmunism from spreading in Vietnam
  3. 5. enterprise economic system where people are free to start their own businesses and work where they please
  4. 6. Scare period of panic and fear of communists living in the United States
  5. 8. War Struggle between the US and Soviet Union fought with words, ideas, and money, but no battle
  6. 11. Pact the Soviet Union and its allies formed in response to NATO during the Cold War
  7. 12. Organization of countries formed to stop the spread of communism and prevent war
  8. 14. Government run by the people
  9. 15. Airlift US aided W. Berlin by flying in food and fuel when the Soviet troops blockaded West Berlin
Down
  1. 1. The most powerful nations in the world
  2. 4. Coined the phrase "iron curtain"
  3. 7. Senator that headed the movement to find communists in the US
  4. 9. Curtain Imaginary line separating Democratic Western Europe from Communist Eastern Europe
  5. 10. race Race between the US and Soviets to be the first to explore outer space
  6. 13. theory The belief that if S Vietnam fell to the communists, other countries would follow