Cold War

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