Cold War Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Missile Crisis, A very tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in the Caribbean Sea (Cuba)
  2. 4. War, War fought on the Korean Peninsula between the communist North (ally=China) and the democratic South (allies=US and United Nations)
  3. 6. Gorbachev, Leader of U.S.S.R. that oversaw the country’s political change from communism to democracy and its eventual disintegration
  4. 9. Plan, A US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WW II
  5. 10. economy, An economy in which the government makes all economic decisions, i.e. communism
  6. 12. American foreign policy to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries resist Soviet advances
  7. 14. Soviet policy of “openess” created by Gorbachev that encouraged the free flow of ideas and information including those critical of Soviet communism
  8. 17. S. Truman, US president who made decision to use the atomic bomb on Japan and who created the US policy of containment
Down
  1. 1. War, A conflict of words, ideas and propaganda between nations rather than direct military action.
  2. 2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a military alliance of America and most Western European countries established in 1949
  3. 3. economy, An economy in which individuals and businesses make all economic decisions, i.e. capitalism
  4. 5. War, War fought in Southeast Asia between the communist North and it’s Viet Cong allies in the south against the democratic South and it’s ally the US
  5. 6. Zedong, Leader of Communist China during and after WWII
  6. 7. A country with enough political, economic, and military strength to influence world events.
  7. 8. Wall, An actual wall that separated democratic West Berlin from communist East Berlin
  8. 11. Assured Destruction, The military strategy that stated the response the use of any nuclear weapon (regardless of size or number) would be the use of ALL nuclear weapons by their enemy
  9. 13. Curtain, The metaphorical boundary separating the democratic countries of Western Europe from the communist countries of Eastern Europe
  10. 15. Race, an informal but serious competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to explore outer space
  11. 16. Race, A competition among nations to get the most weapons (especially nuclear weapons).