CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS CROSSWORD

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Across
  1. 2. This major city in Florida is most dangerously close to Cuba
  2. 3. The 35th president of the United States of America
  3. 5. Soviet Premier caused the deployment of Russian missiles in Cuba
  4. 7. Cuban exiles trained by the ____ in April, 1961
  5. 8. 300 of these types of missiles gave America an edge over USSR
  6. 11. This American ambassador tried to force Russia to confess the existence of weapons in Cuba
  7. 15. A U-2 flight first discovered nuclear weapons in Cuba in this month
  8. 16. A naval ___________ was placed to stop further shipments from the USSR
  9. 18. America's primary opponent in the Cold War
  10. 19. America placed several missiles throughout this continent
Down
  1. 1. An peace promoting international organization during the cold war
  2. 4. Kennedy convened a group of senior advisers who met at the _______ ________
  3. 6. A ground missile system used for taking down air-crafts
  4. 7. This caused much vexation in Cuba during the year 1959
  5. 9. Cuba's new leader after the Cuban revolution
  6. 10. A Turkish missile would reach this Russian city in 16 minutes
  7. 12. America placed several missiles in this European country
  8. 13. Short form of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council
  9. 14. The Cuban missile crisis caused the creation of the _________
  10. 17. __________ war could end the world.