UNIT 10 CROSSWORD — Cold War & Decolonization

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Across
  1. 4. Imaginary line dividing communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe
  2. 5. Competition to achieve superiority in space exploration
  3. 6. 1949 communist revolution led by Mao Zedong
  4. 8. Military alliance of US and Western European nations
  5. 10. 1962 confrontation between US and USSR over nuclear missiles in Cuba
  6. 12. Soviet led military alliance of Eastern Bloc countries
  7. 14. Policy offering aid to nations resisting communism
  8. 16. Anti apartheid leader who became South Africas first Black president
  9. 18. US and British mission to fly supplies into West Berlin
  10. 19. Soviet attempt to cut off West Berlin from supplies
  11. 20. Division of India into India and Pakistan in 1947
  12. 23. US economic aid program to rebuild Western Europe after World War II
  13. 24. US policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
  14. 25. Conflict dividing Korea into communist North and democratic South
Down
  1. 1. Mao effort to remove old ideas and opponents using Red Guards
  2. 2. Mao program attempting rapid industrialization causing mass famine
  3. 3. Conflict in Southeast Asia involving the US against communist North Vietnam
  4. 7. Period of tension and rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union without direct fighting
  5. 9. Process of former colonies gaining independence
  6. 11. Movement led by Gandhi to end British rule
  7. 13. PALESTINIANCONFLICT Ongoing conflict rooted in competing claims to land
  8. 15. System of racial segregation in South Africa
  9. 17. Competition between the US and USSR to build nuclear weapons
  10. 21. Leader who established the Peoples Republic of China
  11. 22. Cold War conflict involving Egypt Britain France and Israel