Iron Curtain

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Across
  1. 2. The fear the communism would spread to the US
  2. 5. The idea that the state owns everything and private property should not exist
  3. 8. The program that NASA founded to compete with the soviets that eventually landed man on the moon
  4. 9. New type of weapons that caused catastrophic destruction wherever they were used
  5. 10. The US policy that attempted to stop the spread of communism
  6. 11. One of the first countries to adopt communism
  7. 13. The idea that nuclear war would destroy both countries involved
  8. 15. A competition between the US and Russia to see who could manufacture the strongest arsenal
Down
  1. 1. The communist dictator that ruled the USSR
  2. 3. Russia placed missiles in Cuba to threaten the US
  3. 4. A period of high tensions between the US and Russia
  4. 6. A less extreme version of communism
  5. 7. President of the United States during the space race
  6. 12. The idea that if one country in Europe adopted communism, the rest would follow
  7. 14. A competition between the US and Russia to see who could be dominant in space first