Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
  2. 4. War that was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.
  3. 5. failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961
  4. 7. pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States
  5. 10. Acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  6. 11. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  7. 13. A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.
  8. 15. In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba.
  9. 17. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.
  10. 18. The capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population.
  11. 19. Country of the West Indies, the largest single island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region.
  12. 20. created in 1949 when the United States, Great Britain, and France consolidated those zones, or portions, of Germany that they had occupied at the end of World War II.
Down
  1. 1. Guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989.
  2. 3. Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw.
  3. 6. Military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance.
  4. 8. This country was commonly viewed as a communist state, and it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".
  5. 9. Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
  6. 12. American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
  7. 14. “A complete disarmament and demilitarization of Germany”
  8. 16. Political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.