Cold War

2. the decision by the USSR to block of all supplies to capitalist west Berlin, to try and starve it into surrender
3. Political hostility/hatred between countries, with both sides using threats and propaganda to weaken each other
4. president of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis
7. the promise made by the USA to support any country threatened by communism
8. French word for relaxtion, which in the cold war meant an easing of tension between the USA and the USSR
9. a military alliance between countries in the USSR against NATO
10. leader of the USSR at the end of the cold war
11. a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 between the USA and the USSR over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba
13. An international organisation founded in 1945 to encourage co-operation between countries

1. a military alliance between western countries opposed to the USSR
2. the decision by the USA to fly supplies into west Berlin to prevent it from starving
5. a war with military fighting
6. The fortified border between east and west Europe during the cold war
12. leader of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the cold war