Cold War
Across
- 2. American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
- 4. War that was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.
- 5. failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961
- 7. pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States
- 10. Acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- 11. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- 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.
- 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.
- 17. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.
- 18. The capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population.
- 19. Country of the West Indies, the largest single island of the archipelago, and one of the more-influential states of the Caribbean region.
- 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. Guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989.
- 3. Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw.
- 6. Military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance.
- 8. This country was commonly viewed as a communist state, and it described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".
- 9. Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.
- 12. American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
- 14. “A complete disarmament and demilitarization of Germany”
- 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.