The Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. Stalin closes all railroads and highway that are en route to West Berlin. Only 3 air corridors allow passage, June 1948-May 1949.
  2. 5. state a political term that refers to a country that is formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country.
  3. 6. A vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions.
  4. 9. Communist leader succeeding Stalin, made the Secret Speech; allowed multitude of enslaved innocent people to become free.
  5. 12. A United States spy plane was shot down over Soviet Union airspace.
  6. 14. north latitude as it bisects the Korean Peninsula became the arbitrary demarcation line between North and Republic of Korea.
  7. 15. Soviet response to NATO; USSR + Eastern Europe (except Yugoslavia) (1955).
  8. 16. A military strategy adopted by President Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara calling for a graduated escalation of force in response to aggression, in contrast to the previous doctrine of massive retaliation.
  9. 18. To protect democracy/capitalism, the USA will interfere economically/financially in countries that are threatened by socialism.
  10. 22. International organization aimed at avoiding conflict through diplomacy.
  11. 23. Western Nations seek to "prevent" the ideas of communism from spreading through the world.
  12. 24. Rebuilding the economies of Europe (West); prevents people from leaning towards communism; strong economies make communism less attractive.
  13. 25. Notion that if South Vietnam fell to the communists, neighboring countries would follow.
Down
  1. 2. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society.
  2. 3. Superior powers form this movement of tension easing in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis (1961).
  3. 4. Built by the East Germany to prevent the escape of Germans into West Germany; this made the refugees free and conduced East Germany to failure because the only ones left were infants and the elderly.
  4. 7. The major Cold War confrontation between U.S. and Soviet forces over the deployment of Soviet IRBMs in Cuba in 1962.
  5. 8. Small, Soviet satellite launched into Space, in order to orbit the planet, Earth.
  6. 10. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba.
  7. 11. The Cold War hit the movies in 1947 when the HUAC descended on Hollywood armed with the names of leading film folk suspected of being communists or left-wing sympathizers.
  8. 13. curtain A term used by Winston Churchill to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.
  9. 17. The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
  10. 19. Western nations fly in supplies to West Berlin in order to distribute: food, clothing, medical supplies, coal.
  11. 20. American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage and pass along nuclear secrets to the Soviets.
  12. 21. Organization formed by the United States, in order to protect Western Europe from Soviet expansion and influence (1949).