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Across
  1. 3. A direct line of communication between the White House and the Kremlin established in 1963. Often called the "red telephone."
  2. 5. Charlie A crossing point between West Berlin and East Berlin when the Berlin Wall divided the city.
  3. 7. A country that dominates in political and military power.
  4. 8. Curtain A term used to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.
  5. 10. Fundamental U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War in which the U.S. tried to contain Communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries.
  6. 12. Introduced in June 1987 by Mikhail Gorbachev, an economic policy to decentralize the Soviet economy. The term translates to "restructuring" in Russian.
  7. 13. A policy promoted during the latter half of the 1980s in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev in which government secrecy (which had characterized the past several decades of Soviet policy) was discouraged and open discussion and distribution of information was encouraged.
  8. 16. Assured Destruction: MAD was the guarantee that if one superpower launched a massive nuclear attack, the other would reciprocate by also launching a massive nuclear attack, and both countries would be destroyed.
Down
  1. 1. The relaxing tension between the superpowers
  2. 2. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society.
  3. 4. arrow A nuclear bomb that is either lost, stolen, or accidently launched that causes a nuclear accident.
  4. 6. A theory that proposed a massive build-up of military and weaponry in order to threaten a destructive counter-attack to any potential attack.
  5. 9. Shelter Underground structures, stocked with food and other supplies, that were intended to keep people safe from radioactive fallout following a nuclear attack.
  6. 11. Race A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to prove their superiority in technology through increasingly impressive accomplishments in space.
  7. 14. race massive military build-up of nuclear weapons by both the Soviets and US in an effort to gain military superiority.
  8. 15. Wars Nickname (based on the Star Wars movie trilogy) of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's plan to research, develop, and build a space-based system that could destroy incoming nuclear missiles.