Cold War USA
Across
- 1. This city had to be helped via an airlift following a blockade by communists
- 5. Discussion between the US and USSR to limit nuclear weapons.
- 8. This county previously ruled over Vietnam, and their larger colony of Indochina
- 10. The US refused to go to the Olympics in this city.
- 11. The USSR captured this pilot in 1960.
- 12. This US President said "I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies."
- 15. This war ended with a truce, keeping the country divided to this day.
- 17. He was the US President during the Olympic Boycott
- 19. US aeronautics organization formed in 1958.
- 20. A failed invasion of Cuba.
Down
- 2. This US President theorized that if one country fell to communism others would follow
- 3. He was the US President when the Berlin Wall was built and Cuban Missile Crisis
- 4. The dividing line between communist nations and democracy
- 6. He was the first person to walk on the moon
- 7. The belief that if one country became communist more would follow.
- 9. A US senator strongly opposed to communism.
- 13. US aid in exchange for the removal of trade barriers.
- 14. An alliance of democratic nations formed after WWII.
- 16. This war to prevent the spread of communism was the longest military conflict in US history.
- 18. an amphibious invasion and a battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory for the UN