Cold War Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• communism : an economic doctrine that replaces a private property/profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of means of production (e.g, mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society
• domino theory : the idea that if a nation falls under communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control
• berlin airlift : airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west berlin
• cold war : an ongoing political rivalry between the united states and the soviet union and their respective allies consisting of threats and proxy wars.
• containment : us policy to stop expansion of soviet union and communism
• nato : military alliance formed to counter soviet expansion and protect western european countries.
• truman doctrine : a policy set forth by u.s. president harry s truman stating that the u.s. would support greece and turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the soviet sphere.
• brinkmanship : the willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down
• capitalism : an economic system based on private ownership of capital
• marshall plan : a plan that the us came up with to revive war-torn economies of europe.
• massive retaliation : policy of threatening to use massive force in response to aggression
• nuclear triad : the military strategy of having a three-pronged nuclear capability, from land, sea, or air
• iron curtain : a term for the cold war division between the soviet-domi
• warsaw pact : an alliance between the soviet union and other eastern european nations. this was in response to the nato
• eisenhower doctrine : policy of the us that it would defend the middle east against attack by any communist country