Unit 16: Decolonization and the Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War to develop more powerful nuclear bombs.
  2. 4. a tense, thirteen-day Cold War confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the U.S. on the other after Soviet missile installations were discovered in Cuba.
  3. 8. a Cold War conflict taking place in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1955-1975. North Vietnam was supported by its communist allies while the government of South Vietnam was supported by the U.S. and other anti-communist countries.
  4. 10. the practice of achieving goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, and other methods, without using violence.
  5. 12. a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the U.S., and Canada intended to collectively defend themselves against further Soviet expansion.
  6. 14. the process of a country once controlled as a colony by an outside force gaining its independence. This process was most notable in Asia and Africa following WWII.
  7. 15. a war fought between North Korean and Chinese communist armies against South Korean and United Nations forces, led by the U.S.
Down
  1. 1. a deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust.
  2. 3. located in Beijing, China, a series of popular demonstrations occurred here in 1989 that were brutally suppressed by the Chinese military under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping. Approximately half a million protestors had assembled demanding economic and political reforms.
  3. 5. a South African policy of complete legal separation of the races, including a banning of all social contacts between blacks and whites.
  4. 6. a term coined by Winston Churchill describing the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.
  5. 7. a 1966-1976 uprising in China led by Mao Zedong's Red Guards with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal. Intellectuals, government officials, factory managers, and anyone else who seemed to have special privileges or who resisted the regime were targeted. Thousands of people were executed or died in jail before Mao put a stop to the movement and dissolved the Red Guards.
  6. 9. a restructuring of the Soviet economy to permit more local decision-making begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
  7. 11. a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents announced by President Harry Truman in 1947.
  8. 13. a Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, introduced in 1985 by Mikhail Gorbachev.