Cold War and the End of the Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. Gorbachev's policy of restructuring the Soviet economy
  2. 6. Man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald
  3. 7. Radical civil rights group founded in 1966
  4. 8. Author of "On the Road" and figure in the Beat movement
  5. 9. Alleged assassin of JFK
  6. 11. U.S.-backed leader of South Vietnam overthrown in a coup
  7. 12. U.S. president assassinated in 1963
  8. 16. Soviet war here drained their economy and morale
  9. 17. Monks who protested Diem’s regime through self-immolation
  10. 19. Civil rights leader who broke from the Nation of Islam
  11. 20. U.S. president impeached over the Monica Lewinsky scandal
  12. 21. Reagan challenged Gorbachev to tear down this city's wall
  13. 22. 1986 nuclear disaster that exposed problems in the Soviet system
  14. 24. President during the Persian Gulf War
Down
  1. 1. Group that investigated JFK's assassination
  2. 3. Gorbachev's policy of openness
  3. 4. Soviet leader who introduced Perestroika and Glasnost
  4. 5. Operation led by U.S. to liberate Kuwait in 1991
  5. 7. Literary rebels of the 1950s who rejected conformity
  6. 10. Iraqi dictator who invaded Kuwait
  7. 13. Order Bush’s term for post-Cold War international relations
  8. 14. 1996 legislation funding prisons and increasing incarceration
  9. 15. Chicago leader of the Black Panther Party, assassinated by the FBI
  10. 18. Theory Belief that if one country fell to communism, others would follow
  11. 23. Rock 'n Roll icon of 1950s youth rebellion