Cold War
Across
- 5. tension between the U.S. and the USSR over weapons in Latin America.
- 7. democratically elected Russian leader that brought the Cold War to an end
- 9. president during the Vietnam War after JFK was shot
- 13. meetings of highest ranking officials from two or more nations
- 16. an organization of countries that would work to keep peace in the world
- 17. leader of Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19. issued with a foreign policy goal of containing the spread of communism
- 20. nation with enough strength to influence events in the world
- 23. led the Communist Revolution in China
- 24. the USSR set up a blockade of Berlin; the US resounded by dropping supplies by air to the East Germans
- 25. policy of keeping communism from spreading
- 26. president of the United States during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 28. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; organization of democratic countries
- 29. Gorbachev's policy of speaking out openly and honestly; a movement toward the end of the Cold War
Down
- 1. corps program set up by JFK to send economic aid to Latin America in an attempt to keep them away from communism
- 2. first satellite launched into space; Russia won the "space race
- 3. senator who encouraged the red scare in the US
- 4. communist leader of Cuba
- 6. program set up by JFK to send economic aid to Latin America in an attempt to keep them away from communism
- 8. an embarrassing attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro that was organized by the US
- 10. agreement Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties; worked to reduce arms during the Cold War
- 11. about fifty years of intense conflict between the US and the USSR that never actually resulted in the two countries fighting each othe
- 12. organization of communist countries set up to counter NATO
- 14. plan in which the US gave economic aid to eastern European countries like Greece in order to prevent them from falling to communism
- 15. North Vietnamese troops who used guerrilla tactics
- 18. leader of North Vietnam
- 21. reducing of tensions between the USSR and the US which led to the end of the Cold War
- 22. set up in Berlin after the failure of the Berlin Airlift; recognized as an "iron curtain" of sorts
- 27. president during the Iran Contra affair
- 28. National Aeronautics and Space Administration