Cold War Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. U.S invasion of Cuba along the Bay of Pigs, in an attempt to prevent communism
  2. 4. the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons related to nuclear technology
  3. 6. Plan proposed by President Harry Truman, in which he recommended that all Americans have health insurance, the minimum wage be increased, and that all Americans be guaranteed equal rights
  4. 7. Last of the Big Three meetings during World War II
  5. 10. U.S Policy to prevent the spread of communism
  6. 11. A guarded concrete barrier that divided west and East Germany
  7. 12. Competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies
  8. 14. 35th President of the United States, promoted the peaceful resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, was assassinated in 1963
  9. 17. war between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea)
  10. 18. An American general who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II and led United Nations forces in the Korean War.
  11. 21. Policy that allowed the U.S to assist democratic nations in conflict with outside pressures
  12. 23. term used for the Joint Security Area, where discussions between North and South Korea still take place
  13. 24. Eastern European nations that were allied under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  14. 25. also known as the European Recovery Program in which the U.S. provided aid to Western Europe following WWII
  15. 26. Former leader of the Soviet Union as the First Secretary, negotiated with former President John F. Kennedy to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba
  16. 28. resulted in Germany being divided into four occupation zones
  17. 29. Boundary that divides North Korea and South Korea
  18. 30. Border that separated communist East Europe from non-communist West Europe
  19. 31. A campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Down
  1. 1. Former General of the Army in WW2, President of the United States, negotiated an end to the Korean War
  2. 3. Lead Soviet Union from 1927-1953
  3. 5. Tension among the two Superpowers and their allies
  4. 8. U.S supplied West Berlin citizens by air with Food, water, and medicine
  5. 9. meeting to formulate the United Nations
  6. 13. USA and Russia
  7. 15. collective defense treaty established by the Soviet union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
  8. 16. Soviet Union attempted to block the U.S, Great Britain, and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin
  9. 19. Plan proposed by President Kennedy in an attempt to establish economic cooperation between the U.S and Latin America.
  10. 20. an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 European and North American countries
  11. 22. 33rd U.S President
  12. 27. 13 day military standoff over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba