Cold War Review Crossword Puzzle

20 August 2022
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Marshall Plan
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The ___ plan provided aid to help rebuild the democracies of Europe after ww2.
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Perestroika
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The term for economic reforms made by the Soviet Union in 1980s.
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Nikita Khrushchev
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He succeeded Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union.
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Containment
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This US policy called for not allowing communism to spread.
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Rosenbergs
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The ____ were a husband and wife executed for giving secrets to the soviets.
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NATO
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The alliance of Democratic countries during the Cold War.
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Joseph McCarthy
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The US senior who claimed there were communists in the US government.
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TET
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The _____ Offensive was a supprise attack on the Vietcong in 1968.
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Hollywood
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The "____ 10" were blacklisted from show-business for refusing to answer questions about communism.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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He became president when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
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Fidel Castro
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Communist leader of Cuba.
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Warsaw Pact
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Soviet-led alliance of communist nations during the Cold War.
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Brinkmanship
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The Cuban missile crisis is the best example of this risky policy.
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Ho Chi Minh
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Communist leader of North Vietnam
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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President who proposed a "massive retaliation" to any attack in 1954.
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Parallel
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Korea has been divided at the 38th ____ since the Korean War.
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Berlin
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America airlifted supplies into this German city during a crisis in 1954.
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Berlin Wall
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This was built to keep Germans from fleeing into the Western part of the capital.
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Iron Curtain
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Churchill coined this term for the imaginary division between east and west Europe.
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Glasnost
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This was the Soviet policy of increased openness in the 1980s.
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John F. Kennedy
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President who oversaw the cuban missile crisis and bay of pigs invasion.
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HUAC
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This House of Representatives committee hunted for communists.
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Richard Nixon
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The president who saw the end of the Vietnam war before resigning in scandal.