Cold War Cross Search

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Across
  1. 2. Theory political theory that is one nation becomes communist that others near it will too.
  2. 3. Soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis
  3. 6. the blocking of another nation's attempt to spread it's influence-US to USSR
  4. 8. Economic change in the USSR
  5. 9. Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
  6. 11. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's program to increase freedom of expression in USSR.
  7. 14. 1955-1875 US Troops fought the spread of communism. Unpopular with the youth.
  8. 16. US support of freedom fighters trying to overthrow communist regimes.
  9. 17. Competition between the US and USSR to get into space.
  10. 18. the period of tightening tensions between the US and USSR
Down
  1. 1. 1950-53 war, called the forgotten war.
  2. 4. Military alliance created in 1949 made up of 12 non communist countries.
  3. 5. June 24th-May 12th 1948, Soviet troops stop Berlin from receiving supplies.
  4. 7. CIA forces attack Cuba. Failed coup.
  5. 10. phrase used to describe imaginary line that separated communist countries from the west
  6. 12. communist answer to NATO
  7. 13. a policy of reducing cold war tensions.
  8. 15. American President during the Bay of Pigs
  9. 17. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  10. 18. leader of Cuba during missile crisis in 1962