Across
- 5. President Theodore Roosevelt’s claim that the United States could intervene to preserve peace and order in the Western Hemisphere and protect U.S. interests
- 6. The process of constructing political institutions and a stable government in a country
- 9. Yielding to an enemy’s demands in order to maintain peace
- 13. Chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons that can inflict extremely severe damage on a very large scale
- 14. An economic or political system in which the state or the community owns all property and the means of production
- 16. The forced removal and murder of ethnic groups from a region
- 17. A series of international agreements that set rules for proper conduct toward sick and wounded enemy soldiers and the civilians who take care of them during armed conflict
Down
- 1. A military campaign designed to wear down the enemy's strength
- 2. A war in which the superpowers backed different sides, which acted as substitutes (proxies) for the superpowers themselves
- 3. The global struggle for power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union that followed World War II
- 4. A governing system in which a ruling elite holds all power and controls all aspects of society, allowing no opposition and often maintaining power with the use of terror and secret police
- 7. The policy of extending a nation’s power by gaining political and economic control over other countries
- 8. A political philosophy or system marked by strong central authority that places the nation above individual rights and freedoms
- 10. The U.S. policy of fighting the spread of communism by limiting it to countries where it already existed
- 11. The practice of spying or using spies to obtain information
- 12. A competition to develop and manufacture more and more powerful weapons
- 15. Devotion to a national or ethnic identity, including the desire for independence from rule by foreign countries