Cold War: 1947-1991 Final Assessment
Across
- 1. America's post World War 2 policy to rebuild Western Europe to prevent spread of Communism
- 4. because it went to space we started to race
- 5. gorbachev's "openness" for the press contributing to the downfall of the USSR
- 6. first major cold war aggression happened here; still divided today
- 7. american couple executed for spying for the soviets
- 9. soviet leader during the cuban missile crises
- 11. the most iconic image of the Cold War; not the great one in China
- 12. rapid industrialization at all costs was his mantra
- 13. u.s. president who resolved the crisis in cuba
- 15. first nuclear arms treaty; preserves meat
- 18. closest the world has ever been to world war 3
- 20. speech that pitted America against Communist aggression
- 22. 1980 u.s. olympic boycott - russian city
- 23. how Communism could spread and pizza under 30 minutes
- 26. NATO's polar opposite
- 27. largest international alliance that still exists today
Down
- 1. this idea of nuclear warfare drives countries "mad"
- 2. gorabachev's idea of contested elections in the Soviet Union
- 3. armstrong and aldrin's employers
- 8. JFK's failed invasion of Communist Cuba
- 10. Gary Powers NOT Bono "incidentally"
- 14. ssshhhh "they" could be watching
- 16. our neighboring Communist caribbean buddy
- 17. it took this many years for Stalin's plans to "succeed"
- 19. Fe in chemistry and window drapery; winston churchill's warning
- 21. american weapons helped to fight off a 1979 soviet invasion here; pre-9/11 headquarters
- 24. he would even name you a commi!
- 25. america's bloodiest cold war conflict