WH Topic 19: Cold War Conflicts

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Across
  1. 3. a group of Communist guerrillas who fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
  2. 5. U.S. President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
  3. 7. a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975
  4. 8. nations the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
  5. 10. in Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together
  6. 14. militia units formed by young Chinese people in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution
  7. 16. a series of meetings in which leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons
  8. 17. during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union
  9. 18. the state of diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II
  10. 20. an uprising in China led by the Red Guards with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal
  11. 21. the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
Down
  1. 1. during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe
  2. 2. a U.S. foreign policy in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
  3. 4. a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon
  4. 6. a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
  5. 9. a line of latitude that divided Korea into two nations after World War II
  6. 11. a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II
  7. 12. a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents
  8. 13. an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
  9. 15. a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression
  10. 19. a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada