Cold War Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Soviet leader responsible for "Destalinization" (last name)
  2. 4. the practice of going to the verge of war in order to win an advantage over an enemy
  3. 5. alliance among the U.S., Canada and nine Western European countries
  4. 8. separation between E. and W. Germany
  5. 10. U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis (last name only)
  6. 12. theory that if one nation fell to communism, the nations surrounding it would fall too
  7. 14. policy of lessening Cold War tensions
  8. 16. policy of limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet control
  9. 18. first U.S. President to go to China (first and last name)
  10. 19. Soviet Leader who reformed the USSR in the 1980s (last name only)
  11. 20. North Vietnamese communist rebels who fought in the South
Down
  1. 1. a U.S. plan to strengthen democratic governments in Europe by giving Europe huge sums of money
  2. 3. the ruthless Soviet dictator responsible for occupying Eastern European countries during the 40s
  3. 6. plan to offer aid to nations struggling against communist movements
  4. 7. policy to strengthen South Vietnamese government and withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam
  5. 8. a failed U.S. attempt to overthrow Cuban communist leader, Fidel Castro
  6. 9. imaginary boundary between Communist East Europe and democratic West Europe
  7. 11. leader of Communist China after the revolution until the 1970s (first and last name)
  8. 13. leader of communist Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  9. 15. general of the U.S., and U.N. troops during the Korean War
  10. 17. alliance among the Soviet Union and seven satellite states in Eastern Europe