Unit 8 Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. 10, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations
  2. 6. Boom, a period marked by a significant increase of birth rate.
  3. 8. Parallel, the latitude line running across Korea at the midpoint of the peninsula.
  4. 9. Pact, defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states
  5. 12. Doctrine, a foreign policy goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
  6. 14. War, a war whose objective is less than the total defeat of the enemy
  7. 15. War, war between North Korea and South Korea
  8. 18. first artificial Earth satellite
  9. 20. Presley, "King of Rock and Roll"
  10. 23. Doctrine, foreign-policy promising military or economic aid to any Middle Eastern country needing help in resisting communist aggression
  11. 26. McCarthy, Republican senator who went "red-hunting" for communists in what came to be known as McCarthyism
  12. 28. policy using strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad
  13. 29. the practice of making accusations of treason, especially when related to communism.
  14. 31. Plan, provided aid to Western Europe following World War II
  15. 32. comprises the states of the South and the Southwest
  16. 36. Highway Act, main effect of this act was the emergence of car as America's main mode of transportation.
  17. 39. The House Committee on Un-American Activities
  18. 40. an economic and societal way of viewing and understanding the economy
  19. 42. Airlift, In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States began a massive airlift of necessities
  20. 43. a young person belonging to a subculture associated with the beat generation.
Down
  1. 1. D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States
  2. 2. denying employment to entertainment industry professionals believed to be or to have been Communists
  3. 4. Deal, The name of president Harry Truman's plan
  4. 5. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  5. 7. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  6. 10. Race, a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons
  7. 11. Union, a socialist state in Eurasia
  8. 13. n Roll, genre of popular music
  9. 16. Case, American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union
  10. 17. Stalin, ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953
  11. 18. States, a country that is independent in the world, but under heavy influence from another country
  12. 19. a country would push a dangerous issue to the edge looking for the best outcome for there side.
  13. 21. Spock, authored The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care in 1946
  14. 22. Kennan, best known for his successful advocacy of a “containment policy"
  15. 24. Truman, 33rd president of the United States
  16. 25. Assured Destruction, full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
  17. 27. Retaliation, A policy that promised a strong response to Soviet threats against allies
  18. 28. Central Intelligence Agency
  19. 30. War, period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United State
  20. 33. Hartley Act, law that restricts the activities and power of labor union
  21. 34. Curtain, barrier erected by the Soviet Union to seal off itself from contact with non communist areas.
  22. 35. The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
  23. 37. Family, a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.
  24. 38. an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one
  25. 41. Bill, helps veterans of World War II