Cuban Missle Crisis

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Across
  1. 2. When the crisis began, in 1962
  2. 6. The closest this came to being “hot” was during this crisis
  3. 10. United States of America
  4. 12. Fear of this led to a peaceful resolution of the crisis
  5. 14. Soviet missles in Cuba posed a threat to this
Down
  1. 1. The world came close to this type of war in 1962
  2. 3. These were spotted by an American U-2 spy plane
  3. 4. This failed American invasion led to the Soviet Union’s support of Cuba
  4. 5. One way the US hoped to solve the crisis
  5. 6. The political system of the Soviet Union
  6. 7. Soviet leader who “backed down”
  7. 8. American President in 1962 who sought to contain the spread of communism
  8. 9. The US agreed to remove their missles from here to help end the crisis
  9. 11. Cuban leader of who urged retaliation against the US
  10. 13. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics