Cold War: 1947-1991 Final Assessment

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