The Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. communist leader of cuba
  2. 8. failed military overthrow of the communist Cuban regime
  3. 11. this president managed to handle the Cuban missile crisis safely and effectively.
  4. 13. court case that desegregated schools
  5. 14. first major proxy war of the Cold war. fought along the 37th parallel
  6. 15. this was an alliance of western nations against communism
  7. 17. this nation became communist in 1949 after a long and deadly civil war
  8. 20. the idea of threatening nations with nuclear attack to keep the USA safe
  9. 21. nine black American high school students that were integrated into an Arkansas school.
  10. 22. political and economic ideology aiming for the creation of a classless society
  11. 23. Soviets launched this satellite into space into 1957.
Down
  1. 1. The idea that any nuclear attack would result in either the US or Soviet Union becoming destroyed through nuclear retaliation
  2. 2. soviet music and art commonly depicted their victory in this war
  3. 3. movement to end inequality racial injustice in the USA
  4. 5. popular rock and roll artist of the 1950s
  5. 6. a war fought between nations commonly supported by the soviets or usa
  6. 7. this president was tough on communism,through favoring "New Look" foreign policies. and favored the
  7. 9. this was the closest the US and Soviet Union came to nuclear war
  8. 10. new type of nuclear weapon first developed by the Americans
  9. 12. Soviet hegemony over eastern Europe masquerading as an alliance
  10. 16. commonly manufactured by the United States in the Cold war
  11. 18. nuclear weapons launched by missile that can strike distant targets quickly
  12. 19. do this if facing a nuclear attack