The Iron Curtain

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Across
  1. 4. strategy that ensured the destruction of both attack & defender in the event of an attack
  2. 6. intelligence gathering activities during the Cold War
  3. 8. Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924-1953
  4. 9. main power fighting against USSR and communist threats
  5. 12. proxy war between US & USSR from 1955 to 1975
  6. 13. American leader who oversaw the beginning of the Cold War
  7. 14. term used to describe divide between capitalist & communist nations
  8. 15. Economic system in which the government has complete control over the economy
Down
  1. 1. a fear and panic for the supposed or real rise of communism during the Cold War
  2. 2. Economic system in which people can own their own businesses and property
  3. 3. War instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved
  4. 5. barrier that separated East & West Berlin to stop people from escaping to the West
  5. 7. foreign policy of the US during the Cold War to stop the spread of communism
  6. 10. competition & advancement in the development or accumulation of weapons between USSR & US
  7. 11. foreign policy to support democratic nations against communist threats
  8. 16. communist state that existed from 1922 to 1991.