The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (USSR)

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Across
  1. 2. Gorbachev's reforms were slow to bear fruit and did more to hasten the ____ of the Soviet Union.
  2. 3. The Bolsheviks established a socialist state in the territory that was once the Russian ______.
  3. 4. On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched ______1 - the first-ever artificial satellite into low Earth orbit.
  4. 8. Georgian-born _______ Joseph Stalin rose to power upon Lenin's death in 1924.
  5. 9. The policy-making ______ of the Communist Party was called the Politburo.
  6. 12. A longtime Communist Party ______, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985.
  7. 13. Nikita Khrushchev became Communist ____ secretary in 1953 and premier in 1958.
  8. 15. Stalin transformed the Soviet Union from an ______ society to an industrial and military superpower.
  9. 16. In the 1980s, the United States ______ the Soviet economy from the rest of the world.
  10. 18. Those that owned land or ______ during collectivization were stripped of their holdings.
  11. 21. Under perestroika, the Soviet Union began to move toward a ______ communist-capitalist system.
  12. 22. On July 20, 1969, US ______ Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.
  13. 23. Khrushchev initiated a series of political reforms that made Soviet society less _____.
Down
  1. 1. In 1927, the newly established Communist Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, took control of the ______.
  2. 4. The Soviet Union's push to industrialize at any cost resulted in frequent _____ of food and consumer goods.
  3. 5. When the Soviet Union's oil and gas _____ dropped dramatically, the USSR began to lose its hold on Eastern Europe.
  4. 6. Stalin ruled by terror with a series of ______ policies, which left millions of his own citizens dead.
  5. 7. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Communist Party _____ rapidly gained wealth and power.
  6. 9. An unsuccessful ______ by Communist Party hard-liners in August 1991 diminished Gorbachev's power.
  7. 10. Between 1928 and 1940, Stalin _______ the collectivization of the agricultural sector.
  8. 11. The success of Sputnik made Americans fear that the U.S. was falling behind its _____ War rival in technology.
  9. 14. In 1949, the U.S., Canada and its European allies formed the North Atlantic ____ Organization (NATO).
  10. 17. The ______ between countries of the Western bloc was a show of force against the USSR and its allies.
  11. 19. During the Great ______, millions were deported or imprisoned in forced labor camps known as gulags.
  12. 20. Amid resistance to collectivization in the countryside, agricultural ____ dropped.