10.6.1 - Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. The state of hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II.
  2. 4. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several ___ European nations.
  3. 9. East Berlin, Cuba, the Soviet Union (USSR), and North Korea were all ____ countries.
  4. 10. On June 27, 1950, the United States officially entered which War?
  5. 11. After he led Vietnam to independence from France, Ho Chi Minh became the communist leader of ____.
  6. 12. The main goal of the ___ ___ was to see who could land the first person on the moon.
  7. 13. In 1955, the Soviet Union created the ___ ____ in response to the creation of NATO.
  8. 15. Zedong’s Great Leap Forward was a failure and resulted in a widespread ____.
  9. 16. The ___ Missile Crisis lead the Soviet Union in attempting to install missiles less than 100 miles off the coast of Florida.
  10. 17. The ____ _____ facilitated political stability in western Europe, which led to economic rebuilding.
Down
  1. 1. who led the first Chinese Communist Party?
  2. 2. The imaginary line between the Communist East and Democratic West.
  3. 5. In his popular speech given on June 12, 1987, which United States president ___ ____ said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
  4. 6. The ___ theory was a belief that if one country became communist, others would follow.
  5. 7. Mikhail Gorbachev instituted the policies of glasnost and perestroika to reform the ___ ____ politically and economically.
  6. 8. West Berlin and the United States were ____ countries.
  7. 12. The Soviet Union launched which satellite on October 4, 1957?
  8. 14. When the ____ won WWII, The United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and competitors.
  9. 15. The Bay of Pigs operation was aimed to trigger an uprising against communist leader ____ ___.