Cold War Crossword

2. Soviets shoot down U-2 spy plane flying over Russia and Captured American pilot Francis Gary Powers.
4. Allowed the United States and the United Kingdom to drop supplies to the people of Berlin, which they needed because of the blockade established by Stalin.
7. A political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
8. Weapon whose enormous explosive power is generated by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes.
9. A plan that the US came up with to revive war-torn economies of Europe.
11. He established a communist regime in Cuba.
13. An international organization that has joined together for military purposes.
14. A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
15. A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

1. A nation that is aligned or under the influence of another nation.
3. A wall that separated the city of Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989. It separated the eastern half from the western half.
5. A military alliance, formed in 1955, of the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite nations.
6. A policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology, mainly helped Greece and Turkey.
10. A conflict between the US and the Soviet Union.
12. A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.