The Early Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. Term coined by Churchill to describe the separation between Western and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
  2. 5. Willingness of US under Eisenhower to go to the edge of all-out war
  3. 8. US-aligned defensive military alliance in the Cold War
  4. 9. Residual radioactive material propelled into the atmosphere following a nuclear blast
  5. 11. President of the United States for most of the 1950s
  6. 13. Threat to respond to any attack with nuclear force
  7. 14. What the I stands for in ICBM
  8. 15. Competition between the US & Soviet Union to gain military advantage
Down
  1. 1. Guarantee any attack would result in total nuclear destruction of both the US and USSR
  2. 2. Soviet-aligned alliance during the Cold War
  3. 4. Eisenhower's Secretary of State who supported nuclear weapons buildup
  4. 6. What the H stands for in H-Bomb
  5. 7. Leader of the USSR from the 1920s to 1950s
  6. 10. Soviet leader in the 1960s
  7. 12. Secret research team that developed the nuclear bomb in the US during WWII