cold war

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Across
  1. 4. President Reagan's proposed weapons system to destroy Soviet missiles from space.
  2. 7. a metaphoric wall dividing the democratic nations of the West from the communist nations of the East
  3. 9. The person who led a revolution that set up a communist state in Cuba
  4. 10. Congress' plan to spend lots of money to rebuild Europe to reduce the treat of communist revolutions in Western Europe
  5. 11. President Truman's policy of giving American aid to nations threatened by communist expansion
  6. 13. A competition for supremacy in nuclear weapons (between United States and Soviet Union)
  7. 14. Vietnamese guerillas who opposed the noncommunist government of South Vietnam.
  8. 15. A wall built by the communist East German government in 1961 to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin.
  9. 18. Policy in the Soviet Union of speaking openly about problems
  10. 19. hundreds of American and British planes carried tons of food, oil, and supplies to the 2 million West Berliners everyday (lasted for a year until Stalin decided to lift the blockade because it wasn't working)
  11. 20. the Cold War Policy of keeping communism within its already existing borders and not allowing communism to spread further
Down
  1. 1. After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States
  2. 2. fighters who used hit and run attacks
  3. 3. Military alliance established in 1955 of the Soviet Union and other communist states in Europe.
  4. 5. The world's first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
  5. 6. a nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation
  6. 8. He took office in 1981 with the belief that the Soviet Union was the focus of evil in the world. He had a tough anticommunist stand, and he wanted to deal with the Soviets from a position of strength, so he persuaded the Congress to increase military spending by more than $100 billion during his first five years in office.
  7. 12. A general who Truman chose to command a force that was sent to Korea to attack after North Korea attacked Southern Korea
  8. 16. a new world organization with 51 nations who were members from the start; they all agreed to bring disputes before the body for peaceful settlement
  9. 17. The conference between the highest-ranking officials of different nations