The Second Half of the Cold War

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Across
  1. 7. the US president that instituted "Star Wars" and launched a massive military build up to bankrupt the Soviets
  2. 9. these two nations became "fronts" to America's longest wars (War on Terror)
  3. 11. the communist Kyhmer Rouge committed genocide in this nation when it fell to Communism after the Vietnam War
  4. 13. this episode in China in 1989 "seemed" like a burst of liberty...until it was crushed
  5. 15. the attack on this US landmark in 2001 led to the 20 + year War on Terror for the US
  6. 16. the SE Asian nation that fell to communism in 1975 after the US withdrawal
  7. 17. the "movement" of developing nations to remain neutral in the Cold War
  8. 18. in 1993 this economic alliance (now also political) was formed between European nations
Down
  1. 1. this European nation broke apart in the early 90s, leading to years of "ethnic cleansing" and genocide
  2. 2. this was opened in 1989..."Mr Gorbechev...tear down this wall."
  3. 3. the movement and term for developing nations to gain independence in the Cold War era
  4. 4. Mao instituted "this" to regain political power and "cleanse" China of anti-Revolutionary thought
  5. 5. the democratic/ capitalist "China"
  6. 6. this Iraqi dictator was fought against by the US twice...toppled in 2003 by US forces
  7. 8. this African nation experienced civil war and genocide in 1993 between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis
  8. 9. re-created in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people
  9. 10. the Soviets invade this nation in 1979...their war fails there as ours did in Vietnam
  10. 12. the Soviet leader credited...or blamed (by communists) for the break-up of the USSR due to his reform movements
  11. 14. the US policy that believed if one SE Asian nation fell to communism, the others would as well