Cold War Mega Crossword

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  1. 2. After Stalin’s death, Khrushchev eventually emerged as the new leader. He seemed to make a fresh start with the West and used the term ‘______ co-existence’ in 1956 to describe the policy of living in peace with the West despite disagreements over ideology and policies.
  2. 9. The Berlin ______ was a response to the Berlin Blockade in which all routes into West Berlin were closed by Stalin.
  3. 10. ‘I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures’ is a line from which doctrine?
  4. 12. After WW2, the USA and the USSR emerged as _______.
  5. 14. Imre _____ in Hungary wanted to make reforms. When he demanded the right for Hungary to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact, Soviet tanks entered to crush the uprising.
  6. 15. Which conference was held just before the end of WW2 to decide what to do with Germany?
  7. 16. This was a program of financial aid called the _____ Plan. The USSR claimed the Americans were using money to bribe other countries into supporting them against the USSR.
  8. 17. The alliance between the USSR and the West appeared over at which conference?
  9. 18. In August, 1945, the USA dropped Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ________?
  10. 19. In 1949, _____ became communist. This was the start of the domino effect and there was fear in West of communism spreading across the globe.
  11. 21. The ______ bomb, successfully tested by the Americans in 1952, was much smaller than the atomic bombs used in 1945 but more than 2,000 times more powerful.
  12. 22. In the _____ War, 1950-1953, there was physical fighting for the first time.
Down
  1. 1. In 1957, the USSR launches the first satellite called _______.
  2. 3. In the US Capitalist system, private individuals owned industry and kept the profit. Whereas, the USSR was _________, everything was owned by the state.
  3. 4. The apparent easing of tensions in the 1970s was called _____. For example, the SALT 1 agreement in 1972 and the Helsinki Agreement of 1975.
  4. 5. The _____ Pact was formed when, in 1955, West Germany joined NATO. It was a military alliance for mutual defence between the USSR and Eastern European States.
  5. 6. Kennedy’s reputation suffered after the Bay of Pigs invasion. However, increased greatly following his apparent strength in forcing Khrushchev to back down and not put ______ in Cuba.
  6. 7. This was a long, brutal war which became humiliating for the USA.
  7. 8. The Americans used the Berlin Wall as _________. The said the USSR had to cage people in to stop them defecting from East Berlin and even then some people still risked their lives crossing the wall.
  8. 11. In 1949 this military pact was signed in which all countries agreed to help each other against any act of aggression?
  9. 13. Which American president refused to apologise after the U2 Crisis in which the USA was caught spying and lying?
  10. 17. The reforms that Dubcek made were known as the ______ Spring. These reforms were suppressed and the Brezhnev Doctrine sent a clear signal that the USSR would resist any attempt to break away by a satellite country.
  11. 20. Churchill expressed concern about the _____ Curtain.