Crossword Cold War

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  1. 1. Being on the edge of war without engaging in battle to force an opponent to back down
  2. 3. Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore
  3. 4. Abbreviation for organization that helps prevent global economic depression and finances money to developing nations
  4. 7. Stated that the Soviets could invade any socialist country where there's an interest in communism
  5. 13. Political program by Gorbachev to open up transparency of political processes and give people more social freedoms
  6. 14. Attempt to improve relations between the Western and Eastern Blocs in Germany
  7. 15. Abbreviation for Mexican party that won national election in 2000 and that Vicente Fox was a part of
  8. 18. Non-industrialized, industrializing states
  9. 20. US sponsored invasion of Cuban exiles to overthrow Fidel Castro that failed
  10. 21. Abbreviation for Mexican party that governed until the 1990's and became corrupt
  11. 23. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in 1979 (Nicaragua)
  12. 26. Khrushchev's attempt to distance himself from Stalin's atrocities
  13. 27. Created the arrangement of alliances with states surrounding communist states in hopes of containing communism
  14. 28. Nation that is industrialized and nuclearized
  15. 29. Reagan's goal for the US to send satellites into space and shoot down Russia that was propoganda
  16. 30. Communist, industrialized states
Down
  1. 2. Fear that communism was invading the US
  2. 5. Capitalized, industrialized states
  3. 6. Economic program by Gorbachev to give businesses in Russia free-enterprise
  4. 8. Abbreviation for Treaty Organization created in 1949 as a military alliance
  5. 9. Theory that if one country accepts communism, so will surrounding states
  6. 10. Abbreviation for American agency that intervened in many countries to attemp to overthrow communist governments
  7. 11. Doctrine signed in 1947 that provided military and financial assistance to Greece and Turkey
  8. 12. Name for hostility between two states that don't result in open fire
  9. 16. Created in 1950 with alliances between the USSR and Eastern European states in response to NATO
  10. 17. Organization that promoted economic unity between European states and eventually adopted a uniform currency
  11. 19. Term for conservative governments that would be friendly to US interests and whose economy depended on their exportation of tropical products, mainly bananas
  12. 22. Local or regional wars in which superpowers armed, trained, or financed the warring nations
  13. 24. Term coined in Churchill's speech referring to an ideological barrier between communist and democratic countries
  14. 25. Abbreviation for trade agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico