the Early Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. U.S. policy to mitigate/ stop the spread of communism
  2. 6. plan to rebuild Europe and its economy
  3. 10. president of the U.S. after Harry Truman, former Supreme Allied Commander in WWII
  4. 12. collective military agreement among Western European nations that made it so that an attack on one is an attack on all
  5. 13. war between North and South that ended at the 38th parallel
  6. 15. witchhunt conducted by Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, also called the 2nd Red Scare
  7. 17. motivated containment policy, theory that stated that the fall of one country to communism would cause other countries around it to fall as well
  8. 18. metaphorical dividing line between Eastern, Communist Europe and liberal democratic Western Europe
  9. 20. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are charged and executed for treason after selling nuclear secrets to the Soviets
  10. 23. HUAC, group led by Senator Joseph McCarthy that tried to hunt down communists in the U.S. government, with no evidence
  11. 24. U.S. commitment to provide aid to any people resisting communism
Down
  1. 1. competition between the United States (U.S.) and Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
  2. 2. communist dictator of China
  3. 3. scientific and technological competition between the Soviet Union and U.S. which encouraged the development of rocketry
  4. 5. period of economic and population growth after the Second World War
  5. 7. creator of a vaccine for polio
  6. 8. U.S. effort to keep West Berlin fed after the Soviets blockade the highways into the German capital
  7. 9. phenomenon that Eisenhower warned of in his Farwell Address that describes how the military and defense industry benefit one another to control U.S. foreign policy
  8. 11. created the federal highway systems
  9. 14. E Pluribus Unum
  10. 16. general who was dismissed after insulting President Truman during the Korean War
  11. 19. law that gave veterans of WWII access to college, low-cost housing, and the ability to start their own businesses
  12. 21. first man-made satellite in space the began the space race
  13. 22. theory that states that the presence of nuclear weapons in a country makes it less likely that another country will attack