Cold War Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. allies flew supplies and food into a blockaded berlin
  2. 6. principle established by president Truman stating that the US will give military aid to countries being forced into communism
  3. 9. geopolitical strategy implemented by the united states to slow the spread of communism
  4. 10. the capital city of Germany that was divided between the USSR and the allied powers after WW2
  5. 11. US senator who believed that the US was being taken over by communist spies
  6. 12. the period in american history in which senator Joseph McCarthy prosecuted many people on the grounds that they were communists
  7. 14. political system of the USSR until its collapse in 1991
Down
  1. 1. island off the florida coast of the United States where Soviet missiles were placed in 1962
  2. 2. name given by Winston Churchill to the line of soviet puppet governments that divided eastern and western Europe
  3. 3. organization developed by western Europe, Us, and Canada to counter soviet power in Europe
  4. 5. soviet version of NATO
  5. 7. the maintenance of military power to prevent attack
  6. 8. communist dictator of cuba
  7. 13. the easing of tensions between the soviet union and the united states
  8. 15. first satellite ever launched into space; put USSR in the lead in the space race