Unit 6: The Cold War And Vietnam

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Across
  1. 3. Belief that the spread of communism in one country would lead to others falling.
  2. 4. Chinese communist leader and founder of the People's Republic of China.
  3. 8. US congressional committee investigating communist influence during the Cold War.
  4. 10. 34th US President (1953-1961) and WWII general.
  5. 11. Term for the ideological division between communist and capitalist nations.
  6. 15. American couple executed in 1953 for allegedly spying for the Soviet Union.
  7. 16. International organization founded in 1945 to promote global cooperation.
  8. 17. Soviet-led military alliance in Eastern Europe, dissolved in 1991.
  9. 18. Thermonuclear weapon using fusion for immense destructive power.
  10. 20. Significant increase in birth rates following WWII.
  11. 21. 35th US President (1961-1963) known for the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  12. 22. Anti-communist witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Satellite nations Eastern European countries controlled by the USSR during the Cold War.
  13. 27. Military alliance formed in 1949 for collective defense against the Soviet Union.
  14. 29. Cuban revolutionary who established a communist regime in 1959.
  15. 30. Allied operation to supply West Berlin during the Soviet blockade in 1948-1949.
  16. 31. Chinese leader who lost the Chinese Civil War to the Communists.
  17. 32. 1945 meeting between US, UK, and USSR leaders to discuss post-WWII Europe.
  18. 34. Soviet leader (1953-1964) known for reforms and confrontations with the West.
Down
  1. 1. Agreements in 1954 to temporarily divide Vietnam and call for elections.
  2. 2. Boundary between North and South Korea.
  3. 5. First President of South Vietnam (1955-1963).
  4. 6. Periods of intense anti-communist hysteria in the US.
  5. 7. 36th US President (1963-1969), escalated US involvement in Vietnam.
  6. 9. US strategy to prevent the spread of communism during the Cold War.
  7. 12. Conflict (1950-1953) between North and South Korea.
  8. 13. First artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
  9. 14. Plan US initiative to aid Western Europe's post-WWII recovery.
  10. 19. Failed CIA-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961.
  11. 23. Crisis 1962 confrontation between the US and USSR over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
  12. 24. Vietnamese nationalist movement led by Ho Chi Minh.
  13. 25. Barrier built by East Germany in 1961 to prevent emigration to the West.
  14. 26. US intelligence agency responsible for gathering and analyzing national security information.
  15. 28. US policy to support nations resisting communist aggression.
  16. 33. Vietnamese communist leader who fought against French and US forces.