History Vocabulary

3. War/political hostility between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
7. used or suitable for growing crops.
10. a wide area of trees.
11. Union/Officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), a nation formerly located in eastern Europe and northwestern Asia. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
12. sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
13. official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.
14. Khrushchev/The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
18. bring goods or services into a country from abroad for sale.
19. areas where people live. Usually agricultural, woodland, mountainous and natural settings.
20. send goods or services to another country for sale.
21. city or densely populated area

1. Batista/President and Dictator of Cuba from 1940 to 1959, before being overthrown during the Cuban Revolution.
2. Missile Crisis/a 13-day conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union
4. person able to read and write.
5. production is owned by the leaders rather than by the individuals or citizens
6. or occurring naturally in a particular place; native
8. F. Kennedy, Jr/President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis
9. standard of Living/the degree of wealth and material comfort available to a person or community.
15. /a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister and President from 1959 to 2008.
16. man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian.
17. person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.