Paddock WH U8a PRE-Quiz Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. High stakes negotiation tactic that relies on threatening war in order to prevent the war from starting
  2. 3. Term describing Fidel Castro's confiscations of US businesses in Cuba
  3. 5. Organization of Capitalist Democracies on either side of the Atlantic Ocean that agreed to provide "Collective Security" to each other
  4. 8. Axis power that was defeated during WWII then divided by the victorious countries
  5. 11. US policy that supplied Middle East governments with weapons and training if they were fighting Communism
  6. 13. A nearly year-long mission to supply West Berlin by air after Stalin closed the land routes in an attempt to force US appeasement and take the city
  7. 14. Cuban revolutionary who became Dictator in 1959 after leading a successful revolution against Batista with the help of Che Guevara
  8. 16. Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953
  9. 17. First human in space; launched by the Soviets in 1961
  10. 18. Incredibly powerful US rocket that was used by the Apollo missions to launch three men to the moon
  11. 22. Formal alliance of Communist countries; Soviets provided other countries with old weapons
  12. 23. First human to step onto the moon; American; July of 1969
  13. 26. US Naval base located on Cuban soil
  14. 27. Cuban military leader that cancelled elections in 1952 and declared himself Dictator; led to the Cuban Revolution
  15. 28. Policy of giving in to an aggressor in order to maintain peace; typically makes the aggressor more bold and leads to violence
  16. 31. US program that stopped supplying the Soviets at the end of WWII, led to mistrust
  17. 32. Location of a failed attempt to overthrow Castro; Cuban refugees trained by the US CIA
  18. 33. US policy introduced with the Eisenhower Doctrine; stated that the US would respond to Soviet attacks on Americans with Nuclear weapons
Down
  1. 2. Term describing the rapid technological and exploration advances throughout the 1960s in an attempt to get to the Moon
  2. 4. Term describing the US Cold War policy of preventing the spread of Communism
  3. 6. European Country that the US put obsolete nuclear missiles in; secretly removed as part of the compromise in the Cuban Missile Crisis
  4. 7. US policy that supplied any European country with money and humanitarian aid; showed that the US was generous and wealthy
  5. 9. US President from 1945-1960
  6. 10. Final phase of the US program to get to the moon
  7. 12. US policy that supplied European governments with weapons and training if they were fighting Communism
  8. 15. Group of Eastern European countries that the Soviet Union controlled as a buffer zone to prevent an invasion of Russia
  9. 19. Term used by the US to describe their blockade of Cuba; attempt to prevent WWIII
  10. 20. Long conflict between the US (1st World) and Soviet Union (2nd World) over political and economic differences
  11. 21. First man-made satellite; launched by the Soviet Union in October 1957
  12. 24. US Space Agency
  13. 25. US President from 1961-1963; authorized the Bay of Pigs invasion; successfully handled the Cuban Missile Crisis; challenged America to put a man on the moon
  14. 29. Time of extremely high tensions in 1962; the US & Soviets nearly went to nuclear war over offensive weapons on a Caribbean island
  15. 30. Artificial barrier constructed by the Soviets through the capital of Germany; prevented population loss to the West
  16. 31. First animal in space; launched by the Soviets in November 1957