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Across
  1. 3. a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries
  2. 7. an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War
  3. 8. is a term in foreign affairs initially used to refer to the United States policy established in the late 19th century
  4. 9. a corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine, asserting that the U.S. might intervene in the affairs of an American republic threatened with seizure or intervention by a European country.
  5. 12. competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War
  6. 13. the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each
  7. 16. Refers to the act of taking men into a military or naval force by compulsion
  8. 17. Pride in ones country
  9. 18. the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence
  10. 19. The state of not supporting or helping in a conflict
Down
  1. 1. usually, but not invariably, used in reference to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  2. 2. a situation in which nations of the world have roughly equal power
  3. 4. the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries
  4. 5. statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
  5. 6. chemical, biological or radioactive weapon capable of causing widespread death and destruction.
  6. 10. involves the development by the United States of a defense in outer space against intercontinental ballistic missiles.
  7. 11. journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration
  8. 14. the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
  9. 15. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment