The Cold War

3. the U.S. and the Soviet Union struck a deal to end the Cuban Missile Crisis... the Soviets would remove missiles from Cuba and the U.S. would remove missiles from ____________.
6. economic/political system promoted by the Soviet Union that the U.S. opposed and tried to contain during the Cold War.
7. the constant threat of _______________ was a key feature of the Cold War era.
8. the United States' response to the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962, also known as a blockade.
9. failed invasion of Cuba by American-trained Cuban exiles meant to overthrow the communist government.
11. the United States provided billions of dollars in _________ to help rebuild western Europe after WW2.
12. the United States' foreign policy aimed at limiting the spread of communism.
14. the capital city of Germany, it served as a small-scale representation of the Cold War because of its division between east and west.
16. one of the two world superpowers after WW2, this country controlled/influenced most of eastern Europe.

1. a country in southeast Asia where the U.S. fought a war in order to prevent the spread of communism (they failed).
2. the most important symbol of the Cold War, it reflected the division of Europe between east and west.
4. the imaginary line that divided democratic western Europe and communist eastern Europe.
5. one of 5 current communist countries in the world today, this island country was the site of the most tense nuclear standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
10. the relaxed restrictions on freedom of expression instituted by Soviet leader Mikhael Gorbachev they contributed to the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.
13. the President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
15. economic reforms instituted by Soviet leader Mikhael Gorbachev meant to restructure the Soviet economy, they contributed to the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union.