Decolonization and the Cold War

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Across
  1. 6. 1989 scene of demonstrations in Beijing China that were brutally suppressed
  2. 9. Polish union leader who organized resistance to communism in Poland and ended communist rule there in 1988
  3. 10. achieving goals through symbolic protests without using violence
  4. 11. defensive alliance formed in 1949 by wetern Europe, the US and others to defend against Soviet expansion
  5. 14. Israeli human rights activist, spent years in Soviet concentration camp for speaking out for human rights
  6. 17. tense cold war stand off between US and USSR over missiles in Cuba in 1962
  7. 19. war fought from 1950-1953 between South Korea and United Nations against N Korea and China
  8. 21. South African freedom fighter and leader of the African National Congress, first black president of South Africa
Down
  1. 1. Chinese leader who formulated China's economic modernization while retaining brutal communist political control
  2. 2. Polish pope who became the first non-Italian pope in over 400 years
  3. 3. late 1960's uprising led by the Red Guards in China
  4. 4. communist leader of the People's Republic of China Won Chinese civil war in 1949
  5. 5. policy of complete separation of the races
  6. 7. led the Indian independence movement with non violence and civil disobedience
  7. 8. cold war conflict involving the US and South Vietnam and North Vietnam in the 1960's and 70's
  8. 12. first woman prime minister of India, assassinated by her Sikh guards
  9. 13. the process of a colony moving to independence from an outside empire or force
  10. 15. communist Cambodian rebels who committed genocide as they attempted to transform Cambodia in the 1970's
  11. 16. curtain" term coined by Churchill to identify the boundary between eastern and western Europe after WWII
  12. 18. leader of Soviet Union from 1985-1991 who introduced perestroika and glasnost
  13. 20. policy of openness to ideas and information introduced by Gorbachev