Cold War Crossword
Across
- 2. Intercontinental ballistic Nuclear Missile.
- 3. A Soviet satellite that launched the Space Race.
- 5. An economic system with free markets and no government intervention
- 6. German city that was divided by a physical wall.
- 11. He was president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and was the one to establish NASA.
- 12. An ideological barrier between east and west Europe after World War II that was put in place by the USSR.
- 13. Soviets tried to move nuclear arms to this US neighbor
- 15. The leader of the protests in India against British rule. He put emphasis on peaceful protests.
- 16. The reforms put in place by Soviet leader Gorbachev in 1985.
- 21. Also known as the Truman Doctrine, allowed for the US to send aid to democratic countries that were under threat of communism.
- 22. The British prime minister during World War II as well as for some time during the Cold War.
- 24. A set of racist and discriminatory laws in South Africa.
- 25. A form of economics in which all property is owned by the state.
- 27. The leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He industrialized the Soviet Union but at the cost of millions of his citizens.
- 28. Also known as FDR, he was the American president during World War II and was present for many of the conferences and treaties that were done during that period.
- 29. Set up by the US during the space race to come up with innovative technology to get the upper hand against the USSR.
- 30. An anticommunist senator from Wisconsin that added to the “Red Scare” in America.
Down
- 1. International organization formed to try to prevent another world war.
- 4. Competition between the USSR and the USA to have control over space security.
- 7. An organization set up by the US, Canada, and other western European countries to defend against communism.
- 8. The first proxy war fought between the US and USSR/China.
- 9. An agreement between eastern European countries and the USSR to defend communism in Europe.
- 10. The founder and dictator of North Korea.
- 14. A group of communist rebels in Southern Vietnam.
- 17. Another proxy war fought between the Soviets and the US in former French Indochina.
- 18. A military leader in the Cuban Revolution
- 19. The first man on the moon.
- 20. Vietnamese leader during the Vietnam War, former communist president of Vietnam.
- 23. Failed invasion of Cuba funded by the US.
- 26. President of the US who declared that we would go to the moon