Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. In 1964, North Vietnam fired torpedoes at a US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin, which in turn caused the US to declare military action against North Vietnam in this war
  2. 7. A direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict
  3. 9. An alliance between the Soviet Union and its communist satellite nations
  4. 12. The Democratic side of Berlin
  5. 14. Failed invasion that the US had on Cuba prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis
  6. 17. The war that led to all the tension
  7. 18. A place of extreme tension Ex. Berlin
  8. 19. A physical barrier between East and West Germany
  9. 20. A time in history when there was extreme tension between the USSR and the US
Down
  1. 1. The leader of the USSR during the Cold War
  2. 2. When The United States and Soviet Union competed with one another for political influence and military power
  3. 3. A system of carrying supplies into Berlin by plane day and night. British and American pilots flew in lots of food, fuel, and raw materials
  4. 5. After WW2, who continued to occupy Western Europe?
  5. 6. The country that was reunified after the collapse of the USSR
  6. 8. When Both countries competed to be the first to put a man in space and to land on the moon
  7. 10. The US and USSR during WW2
  8. 11. 1919-1920, many in the United States feared recent immigrants and dissidents, particularly those who embraced communist, socialist
  9. 13. The Communist side of Berlin
  10. 15. The imaginary dividing line that divided democratic countries in Western Europe and the Communist countries in Eastern Europe
  11. 16. The war where the United States had to take a stand against Communist aggression in Korea.