End of the Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. The anti-communist, Polish-born pope
  2. 5. Soviet policy of "openness" which increased freedom of speech
  3. 6. This Republican president was elected in 1980.
  4. 7. After being isolated for approximately two decades, President Nixon became the first president to visit this country
  5. 10. This "division" between East and West Europe collapsed with the fall of the Soviet Union
  6. 11. Name of the first independent labor union to be recognized by a state in the Warsaw Pact
  7. 14. A German term meaning "political realism"; advocated by Nixon's Secretary of State
  8. 15. II Although ultimately not ratified, this agreement was intended to limit strategic weapons and nuclear missile-launchers
  9. 16. The American president who oversaw the "end" of the Cold War in 1991.
  10. 18. As a result of the Soviet invasion of their neighbor in 1979, the US blocked exports of this agricultural product to the Soviet Union
  11. 19. President Ford sought to support anti-communists in this nation in South Africa. Congress refused to provide additional aid in an effort to avoid another Vietnam disaster.
  12. 21. Leader of the Polish labor union that fought to be recognized
  13. 22. This 1987 agreement reduced nuclear arsenals for the US and Soviet Union
  14. 23. The group supported by Americans after the Soviets invaded their neighbor in 1979.
  15. 24. This man became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985
  16. 25. Nixon's Vice President who assumed the presidency after Nixon's resignation
  17. 26. The name critics gave to Reagan's Cold War defense plan
Down
  1. 1. President Carter's foreign policy focused on protecting this
  2. 2. In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded this country
  3. 4. In a 1987 speech at this landmark, President Reagan implored the Soviets to "Tear down this wall!"
  4. 7. The leaders of Romania who were executed on Christmas Day (1989) as part of the 1989 Revolutions across Eastern Europe
  5. 8. Restructuring of Soviet society to allow for some private enterprise
  6. 9. Nixon's Secretary of State who promoted a philosophy of "political realism"
  7. 11. II Pact between the American president and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) to cut both nations' nuclear arsenals by 2/3
  8. 12. Created in 1961, this German landmark was torn down in 1989.
  9. 13. The United States protested the 1980 Olympics in this city
  10. 17. Poland and Czechoslovakia left this agreement in 1990
  11. 20. The relaxing of Cold War tensions
  12. 21. Upset about SDI, the Soviets ended arms control talks and boycotted the 1984 Olympics in this city
  13. 27. This treaty was the outcome of Nixon's subsequent visit to Moscow in 1972