Cold War

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Across
  1. 6. U.S foreign policy to stop the spread of communism
  2. 8. School children practiced this type of drill at school in the 1950s and 1960s
  3. 9. Competition between the US and USSR for superiority in space technology, starting with the 1957 launch of Sputnik.
  4. 12. Operation by the US and UK to fly food and supplies into West Berlin during the Soviet blockade
  5. 13. Name of the scandal that ultimately forced Nixon to resign
  6. 14. herbicide used in the Vietnam War
  7. 16. to ease strainged relations between two countries
  8. 17. A 1962 confrontation between the US and USSR over Soviet missiles in Cuba, often considered the closest the world came to nuclear war.
  9. 20. A period of intense anti-communist fear in the United States.
  10. 22. A 1949 defense alliance formed by the US, Canada, and Western European nations.
  11. 23. President after JFK assassination
  12. 24. Economic system based on private ownership and free markets
  13. 26. If one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would likely fall as well
  14. 27. An era of high tension, propaganda, and competition, but no direct "hot" military conflict between the US and USSR.
Down
  1. 1. elaborate system of mountain and jungle paths and trails used by North Vietnam to infiltrate troops and supplies into South Vietnam
  2. 2. A Soviet policy of more openness
  3. 3. ideological and physical divide between Western Europe and the Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe
  4. 4. Massive US financial aid to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of communism
  5. 5. Accused of passing atomic bombs secrets to the Soviet Union
  6. 7. Gave President Johnson broad war powers in Vietnam without a declaration of war
  7. 10. This South Vietnamese city fell, signaling the end of the Vietnam War
  8. 11. Accusing people of being communist or disloyal without evidence, led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
  9. 15. Fell in 1989
  10. 17. political system where the state owns all property and controls economic activity.
  11. 18. President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
  12. 19. leader of the Soviet Union
  13. 21. A 1955 military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and its satellite nations in Eastern Europe.
  14. 25. A competition between the US and USSR to develop and produce more advanced and numerous weapons