Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. a group of directors, actors, producers, etc. who refused to cooperate with HUAC and were blacklisted and arrested for contempt of Congress HINT: accused of communism
  2. 6. belief that if 1 country falls to communism then so will the ones surrounding them HINT: countries around them fall as well, like dominos
  3. 7. First confrontation in the cold war, US “wins” HINT: blockade
  4. 8. North Korea invaded South Korea HINT: ends with armistice
  5. 10. finding people and interrogating and imprisoning people who are suspected of being communist HINT: against 4th amendment
  6. 11. formed by western democratic countries in response to cold war tensions for security - alliance HINT: to ally themselves in case of Soviet attack
  7. 13. 1950s music HINT: elvis
  8. 14. political hostility and tension between the US and USSR HINT: nuclear arms race
Down
  1. 1. US President HINT: made decision to drop atomic bombs in japan in WW1
  2. 2. intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. HINT: marked the start of the US-USSR space race
  3. 3. the line on the map that separates democratic countries from communist countries HINT: the imaginary line dividing Europe between Soviet influence and Western influence
  4. 4. policy to keep communism from spreading HINT:keep communism where it is
  5. 5. financial aid for European recovery after WW2 HINT: helped rebuild their economies
  6. 7. men came back from war and got married to their sweethearts and lots of babies were born HINT: families began to grow
  7. 9. fear of communist HINT: beginning in the 1920s after WW1 and continues after WW2
  8. 12. communist & dictator HINT: communism & government run businesses