Cold War vocabulary crossword

First Russian satellite to go to space
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Long war with no action
the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas
a village just north of the de facto border between North and South Korea
a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning American ballistic missile deployment
a political slogan and a name for various associated ideologies aimed at achieving self-determination for people of African descent
a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966
is the residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast
a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state
an immensely powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen using an atom bomb as a trigger.
a collective defence treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland among the Soviet Union and seven Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, or Manila Pact, signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines
civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961
a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957
an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama
a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans
A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II
a temporary marked increase in the birth rate
an ambitious set of proposals put forward by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to Congress in his January 1949 State of the Union address
a vociferous campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy
10 motion-picture producers, directors, and screenwriters who appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in October 1947, refused to answer questions regarding their possible communist affiliations
the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics
A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany
is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member states
an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence
A slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to describe his goals and policies