The Cold War

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Across
  1. 9. a system of government that is centralized or has total power and is led by a ruler that requires its members to serve the state
  2. 11. a civil conflict that became a proxy war between superpowers clashing over communism and democracy
  3. 12. a political system in which all property is owned by the state and each citizen works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
  4. 15. a competition between nations for power through the creation and buildup of weapons, especially nuclear weapons, between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  5. 16. was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989.
  6. 17. group of socialist states under the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Belorussia, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia
  7. 18. to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state
Down
  1. 1. Divided communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea.
  2. 2. based on the assumption that both sides were equally interested in preventing nuclear war and any other use of nuclear weapons.
  3. 3. an imaginary barrier separating the Soviet Union and its communist satellite states from Western Europe during the Cold War.
  4. 4. the open yet limited competition that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
  5. 5. force levels, control of the weapons, technology for delivering them, and the plans for targeting them.
  6. 6. a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
  7. 7. the United States of America.
  8. 8. a destructive bomb that rapidly releases nuclear energy, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.
  9. 10. the United States maintained a “triad” of ICBMs, SLBMs, and heavy bombers in a strategic nuclear arsenal of more than 10,000 warheads
  10. 13. an economic system in which prices are determined by open competition between privately owned businesses.
  11. 14. a system to organize society with the goal of spreading wealth more evenly and treating all people fairly. The government owns and regulates the means of trade and production rather than private ownership in a free market.