Independent Project - Spring

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Across
  1. 1. Abbreviation for the organization of the U.S. and various Western European countries that came together to combat the threat of Soviet aggression.
  2. 3. Stalin once said, “_____ weapons can hardly be used without spelling the end of the world.”
  3. 6. Island nation that remained a communist outpost in the Western Hemisphere.
  4. 7. China went to war with this communist country in 1979.
  5. 11. Marxists believed that socialism would weaken this form of pride.
  6. 13. The Cuban Missile ________ that occurred in 1962.
  7. 14. Alliance between the Soviet Union and East European communist countries to counterweight NATO.
  8. 16. Soviet communists wanted communism to be viewed as a reasonable alternative to this political system.
  9. 17. Castro The leader of Cuba’s communist regime.
Down
  1. 2. During U.S. intervention caused by Cold War fears the U.S. often supported ____________ regimes.
  2. 4. The posture that India took in the Cold War.
  3. 5. The communist country that Vietnam invaded on Christmas day, 1978.
  4. 8. The type of radicals that the Soviet Union feared would replace communism in Afghanistan.
  5. 9. The last name of the Soviet leader who rose to power after Stalin’s death.
  6. 10. The name of the dam that the U.S. refused to assist Egypt in building, leading Egypt to build a close relationship with the Soviet Union.
  7. 12. Often referred to as the “arms race in nuclear weapons”
  8. 15. The other communist giant besides the Soviet Union.