Cold War

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Across
  1. 6. Conflict supported by larger powers.
  2. 8. Conflict on the Korean Peninsula during the Cold War.
  3. 9. Communist nation dissolved in 1991.
  4. 10. Period of eased Cold War tensions.
  5. 14. Barrier separating East and West Berlin.
  6. 15. Belief that communism would spread country to country
  7. 18. Soviet military alliance in Eastern Europe
  8. 19. U.S. aid program rebuilding Europe.
  9. 20. U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism
  10. 21. 1962 nuclear confrontation involving Cuba.
  11. 24. Economic system based on private ownership.
Down
  1. 1. Final leader of the Soviet Union.
  2. 2. Competition to build powerful weapons.
  3. 3. First satellite launched into space.
  4. 4. Conflict between the U.S. and Soviet Union without direct large-scale War
  5. 5. Term describing the division of Europe.
  6. 7. Policy supporting countries resisting communism.
  7. 9. Competition between the U.S. and USSR in space exploration.
  8. 11. Conflict involving communist North Vietnam.
  9. 12. Economic reform policy in the Soviet Union.
  10. 13. U.S. president during the 1980s Cold War escalation
  11. 16. System where the government controls production.
  12. 17. Operation supplying West Berlin during blockade.
  13. 22. Policy promoting openness in the USSR.
  14. 23. Western military alliance formed in 1949.