Across
- 3. the Cold War division between capitalist USA-allied Western Europe and communist Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe
- 5. US foreign policy to contain Communism by intervening to support nations under threat
- 7. unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed Cuban exiles
- 8. nations that are theoretically independent but in practice, controlled by a super power
- 9. chemical weapon used by the USA in Vietnam, that clings to its targets while burning
- 10. war in which two powers fight each other indirectly by supporting rival sides in a war involving a smaller nation or nations
Down
- 1. wall built by the East German Communists to physically separate West Berlin from East Berlin
- 2. Soviet nuclear power plant where there was a disastrous accidental explosion
- 4. massive US financial aid programme that funded the reconstruction of Western Europe after the Second World War
- 6. policy of preventing Communism from spreading beyond the areas of the world where it was already established