Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. Fear that communists were working to destroy America
  2. 5. Communist leader of China
  3. 6. People were concerned about Kennedy because he was
  4. 8. First communist government in Western Hemisphere
  5. 9. Closest world ever came to nuclear war after USSR built nuclear missile sites in Cuba
  6. 14. Soviet satellite
  7. 15. competition between USA and USSR to see who could build the most powerful weapons
  8. 16. Winner of the 1960 Presidential election
  9. 17. Wisconsin Senator who used his communist witch hunt to gain more power
  10. 18. Group of writers and producers who refused to testify about communists
Down
  1. 2. Corrupt leader of China
  2. 3. Location of US blunder when trying to overthrow Castro in 1961
  3. 4. Location of wall separating Communist East and Capitalist West
  4. 7. US overthrows potential communist government in Latin America
  5. 10. High ranking government official who was found guilty of being a USSR spy
  6. 11. US would respond to communist threats with crushing, overwhelming force
  7. 12. Jewish couple sentenced to death for being Soviet spy
  8. 13. you bomb us, but before we die we make sure that all of you die as well
  9. 18. Government agency to investigate potential communists