Cold war - 7 - DCM
Across
- 2. Conflict supported by rival powers but not directly fought by them
- 4. Proxy war on the Korean peninsula
- 6. Churchill's metaphor for the division between East and West Europe
- 10. competition between the U.S. and USSR to be the first to explore space
- 11. International peacekeeping body formed after WWII
- 15. Belief that communism would spread from one country to the next
- 16. Leader of soviet Union at the start of the Cold War; Known for his authoritarian rule and role in establishing the Eastern Bloc
- 17. U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism
- 19. U.S. economic aid to rebuild Western Europe
- 20. Conflict involving the U.S. to stop communism in Southeast Asia
Down
- 1. U.S. policy to aid countries resisting communism
- 3. Period of eased tensions in the 1970's
- 5. Strategic arms limitation agreements
- 7. Communist state led by Russia
- 8. Failed U.S. Backed invasion of Cuba in 1961
- 9. First artificial satelite launched by the USSR in 1957
- 12. Military alliance of Western powers
- 13. Physical barrier dividing East and West Berlin
- 14. Competition to build up nuclear weapons
- 18. Nuclear standoff in Cuba between the U.S. and USSR