Cold War
Across
- 3. Pact was an alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries
- 6. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs
- 10. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
- 12. competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States and the Soviet Union
- 13. a political theory derived from Karl Marx
- 14. the easing of tensions between the Soviet Union and the US
- 17. a Central American nation , set between the pacific and Caribbean sea, known for its dramatic terrain of lakes, volcanoes and beaches
- 18. a country the Soviet Union invaded in 1979 under the pretext of upholding a treaty
- 20. an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies that developed after World War II
- 22. a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008
Down
- 1. a mutual defense pact aimed at containing possible Soviet aggression against Western Europe
- 2. a bomb much more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan
- 4. a conflict, that started in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam, the Vietcong, and North Vietnam
- 5. when the Soviet Union set up nuclear missiles in Cuba
- 7. The Korean War was a war between North Korea, with military support from China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea, backed by personnel from the United Nations
- 8. The United States and the Soviet Union during the cold war were often called by this name to reflect their military strength
- 9. a competition between the Soviet Union and the US in the field of space exploration
- 11. a militant youth movement in China that carried out attacks on intellectuals and other disfavored groups as part of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution
- 15. German philosopher and author who wrote about the idea of communism as a government
- 16. a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro
- 19. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
- 20. a country situated in the western West Indies that grew dependent on Soviets for economic and military aid
- 21. a country in East Asia and is the world's third largest country.