Cold war

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Across
  1. 4. organization of communist countries set up to counter NATO
  2. 7. the USSR set up a blockade of Berlin; the US resounded by dropping supplies by air to the East Germans
  3. 9. leader of North Vietnam
  4. 11. leader of Russia during the Cuban Missile Crisis
  5. 15. policy of keeping communism from spreading
  6. 16. set up in Berlin after the failure of the Berlin Airlift; recognized as an "iron curtain" of sorts
  7. 18. nations set up as an organization of countries that would work to keep peace in the world
  8. 19. president during the Vietnam War after JFK was shot
  9. 22. agreement Strategic Arms Limitations Treaties; worked to reduce arms during the Cold War
  10. 23. first satellite launched into space; Russia won the "space race
  11. 26. an embarrassing attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro that was organized by the US
  12. 28. led the Communist Revolution in China
  13. 29. communist leader of Cuba
  14. 30. meeting meetings of highest ranking officials from two or more nations
Down
  1. 1. about fifty years of intense conflict between the US and the USSR that never actually resulted in the two countries fighting each othe
  2. 2. democratically elected Russian leader that brought the Cold War to an end
  3. 3. North Atlantic Treaty Organization; organization of democratic countries
  4. 5. program set up by JFK to send economic aid to Latin America in an attempt to keep them away from communism
  5. 6. issued with a foreign policy goal of containing the spread of communism
  6. 8. president of the United States during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis
  7. 10. plan in which the US gave economic aid to eastern European countries like Greece in order to prevent them from falling to communism
  8. 12. North Vietnamese troops who used guerrilla tactics
  9. 13. an embarrassing attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro that was organized by the US
  10. 14. reducing of tensions between the USSR and the US which led to the end of the Cold War
  11. 17. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  12. 20. senator who encouraged the red scare in the US
  13. 21. Gorbachev's policy of speaking out openly and honestly; a movement toward the end of the Cold War
  14. 24. corps program set up by JFK to send economic aid to Latin America in an attempt to keep them away from communism
  15. 25. nation with enough strength to influence events in the world
  16. 27. president during the Iran Contra affair