The Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. In 1948 US and allies airlifted supplies to this German city
  2. 4. The Cold War was cold because the US and USSR never had a physical ____
  3. 5. He was the last leader of the USSR before it collapsed in 1991
  4. 9. The division between democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe was called the iron ____.
  5. 10. In 1950 the US started ___Free Europe to give anti-communist information and opinions to people in the USSR and Eastern Europe.
  6. 14. What the USSR put in Cuba in 1962
  7. 15. The kind of war fought indirectly through allies
  8. 16. the economic system that the USSR wanted
Down
  1. 1. The word means 'relaxation' in French and was used for nuclear talks between the US and Russia in the 1970s
  2. 2. This mutual defense group was created in 1949 by the US, Canada and Western European nations
  3. 6. In 1946 the ___ Plan was supposed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons
  4. 7. The pact of nations allied with Russia
  5. 8. the economic system that the US wanted
  6. 11. In 1949, Russia tested its first atomic ___
  7. 12. Historians say the Cold War was really a war of _____
  8. 13. USSR stands for Union of Soviet ____ Republics
  9. 17. The US won the space race against the Soviets when it sent astronauts to the ____ in 1969.