Cold War

4. this happened in 1961 and was an embarrassment for the US and for JFK
5. the US and USSR agreed to not put missiles here in a 1967 treaty
7. UNITED SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLUIC
9. this organisation attempted to have the leader of Cuba assassinated
12. the name of the alliance between capitalist countries that still exists today
13. this was set up between Washington and Moscow after the missile crisis
14. Missiles that are designed to counter ballistic missiles
16. country in Asia that America went to war in over the spread of communism
18. the leader of Cuba during the missile crisis
19. the name given to periods of relaxed tensions during the cold war, particularly in the 70's
21. this term is used to describe when there is an easing of tension in the cold war
23. political and economic ideology of the west
25. Nuclear missiles that can travel between continents
27. the leader of Czechoslovakia during the Prague spring

1. Kennedy decided to do this to Cuba in response to the USSR missile sites
2. leader of the soviet union from 1953 to 1964
3. the leader of the US during the missile crisis
4. the policy introduced by the USSR leader that would not allow the countries of Eastern Europe to reject communism
6. the name for the 'big three' countries at the end of ww2
8. the name of the treaty in which both superpower governments tried to limit their production of missiles
9. political and economic ideology of the East
10. the country that had a revolution in 1959
11. the soviet leader who invaded Czechoslovakia
13. this country had an uprising crushed by the ussr in 1958
15. the name of the alliance between communist countries
17. name of the 1975 agreement in which there were discussions of borders and human rights
20. the president that succeeded Roosevelt
22. USSR's solution to the East Germans migrating to the West of germany
24. the country that the US had missiles in that were capable of reaching Russia's mainland
26. mutually assured destruction