Cold War

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