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Down: 1) a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.2) a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression.4) communist leader in Northern China.8) a 1966-1976 uprising in China, led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal.10) the independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and Soviet Union.11) a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries.15) a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by then Western European nations, the U.S, and Canada.17) Seized power from Nikita Khrushchev and became leader of the Soviet Communist party in 1964. Ordered forces in to Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia.18) ruled the USSR from 1958-1964; lessened government control of soviet citizens; seeked peaceful coexistence with the West instead of confrontation.19) a group of communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975.22) President that announced SDI to protect America against enemy missiles.23) Nationalist leader in Southern China.25) militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution.27) President that introduced Detente to lessen cold war tensions.28) Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927).31) a series of meetings in the 1970s, in which leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed to limit their nations' stocks of nuclear weapons. Across: 3) in Communist China, the collective farms on which a great number of people work and live together.5) line of latitude that separated North and South Korea.6) Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969).7) a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the U.S..9) an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world.12) South Vietnamese president that was catholic and strongly opposed communism. His poor leadership and corrupt government spelled doom.13) during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United Staes or the Soviet Union.14) a policy directed at blocking Soviet influence and preventing the expansion of communism which included creating alliances and helping weak countries resist Soviet advances.16) president who stepped in after Kennedy assassination and committed to stopping the spread of communism and escalated u.s involvement in war in Vietnam.20) president during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the Cuban missile crisis (also president during space race and building of Berlin wall). 21) During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe form the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe.24) a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents announced by President Harry Truman in 1947.26) Muslim religious leader captured the American embassy and took American diplomatic hostage.29) American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.30) a U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII.32) President Richard Nixon's strategy for ending U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, involving a gradual withdrawal of American troops and replacement of them with South Vietnamese forces.33) the idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control.
 

 

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