Cold War Review

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Across
  1. 2. Organization founded by the Soviet Union in response to NATO
  2. 3. A competition between the US and Soviet Union to achieve significant milestones in space exploration and technology development
  3. 6. Response to the Warsaw Pact
  4. 9. Argentinian civil war
  5. 11. A Cold War battleground where the US/Democratic side did not win
  6. 12. Dictator in Cuba
  7. 14. A massive operation conducted by the Western Allies to supply West Berlin with food and other necessities after the Soviet Union blockaded the city in 1948 during the early stages of the Cold War
  8. 15. A competition between the US and Soviet Union to develop and stockpile nuclear weapons, leading to a buildup of arsenals capable of mutually assured destruction
  9. 17. Leader of Communist China during the Cold War
  10. 18. The period of heightened tensions between the US and Soviets after WWII
Down
  1. 1. US foreign policy doctrine advocating assistance to countries resisting communist influence
  2. 4. US policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
  3. 5. A tense confrontation in 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba, bringing the two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war
  4. 7. The dividing line between Communist Eastern Europe and Western Europe
  5. 8. Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  6. 9. The "disappeared ones"
  7. 10. A conflict in which two opposing superpowers support combatants that serve their interests but do not engage directly in military confrontation
  8. 13. A period of improved relations and reduced tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  9. 14. Famous barrier dividing the capital of Germany during the Cold War
  10. 16. American spy plane shot down over Soviet airspace in 1960