Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 3. The political idea that all property should be publicly owned by a central government.
  2. 6. Collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and satellite states of Eastern Europe
  3. 9. Motivated by fears that a conventional war between the United States and the Soviet Union would result in nuclear disaster
  4. 10. At the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union, US and the Great Britain agreed to start an international organization to keep peace
  5. 12. A conflict between communist North Korea hoping to unify the country under a Communist government and democratic South Korea. North Korea was allied with the Chinese, and South Korea was allied with UN forces led by the United States.
  6. 15. Failed invasion led by the CIA to overthrow Castro's communist government
  7. 16. US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  8. 17. Term coined by Winston Churchill to symbolize the political division between communist countries and democratic countries during the Cold War.
  9. 18. The collapse of the _____ ____ came in 1989 after years of economic weakness, military overspending, and growing resistance from satellite states
Down
  1. 1. Conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces that began in 1955. The United States was heavily involved in the war. Afterward, the nation became united under a Communist government.
  2. 2. the closest the world has ever been to nuclear warfare
  3. 3. Mao's policy of purging the Communist Party of his opponents & instill revolutionary values in younger generations.
  4. 4. Students & workers protested here to address corruption in the Chinese Communist Party
  5. 5. Leader of the Communists in China’s Civil War
  6. 7. American policy to help European states rebuild after WWII
  7. 8. Mao's plan to grow more food & allow more people to work in industry.
  8. 11. Collective defense treaty of the US & other western-allied states
  9. 13. The period of tension between the US and the USSR
  10. 14. Soviet leader who took over after Stalin & narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions