The Cold War Review

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Across
  1. 2. The US policy meant to stop the spread of communism and Soviet influence
  2. 6. Cold War tensions increased when the US exploded its first ___ in 1953. It was 1000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
  3. 10. Soviet leader who succeeded Stalin and built the Berlin Wall
  4. 12. The creation of ICBMs led to the stockpiling of nuclear weapons during the ____
  5. 13. The US fought a war in _______ to try to prevent the spread of communism.
  6. 16. ____ was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missle Crisis
  7. 18. Intelligence agencies like the CIA and KGB used spies and spy technology to carry out _____.
  8. 19. The type of indirect fight between the USA & USSR
  9. 21. Western nations feared that if one nation fell to communism that it would create a ____, where many other nations would fall to communism
  10. 22. The Soviet Union and Eastern European countries formed the _____pact.
  11. 23. The US and the USSR fought a proxy war in this country during the 1980s.
Down
  1. 1. The USA and Western European nations formed the ____ alliance
  2. 3. The US policy directed at blocking Soviet influence by promising miliary help to any nation threatened by communism.
  3. 4. This country was divided into 4 zones of occupation after WWII, with one half influenced by communism
  4. 5. The ____ was the closest the USA and the USSR came to nuclear war
  5. 7. The idea that with the USA and USSR in possession of large nuclear stockpiles, each side could destroy each other
  6. 8. the policy of threatening to use nuclear weapons and willingness to go to the brink of war
  7. 9. The policy of __________ replaced the policy of brinkmanship.
  8. 11. Under Krushchev, the Soviet Union launched ____ and the space race began.
  9. 14. US President during the Cuban MIssle Crisis
  10. 15. The US policy that provided money to rebuild post-war Europe
  11. 17. The division of Europe into communist and democratic regions
  12. 20. The ____ was constructed to keep East Germans out of West Berlin