Across
- 6. U.S.-led conflict in Southeast Asia that divided global opinion
- 7. 1962 standoff over Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
- 11. The UN’s most powerful body with five permanent members
- 13. International organization created to maintain global peace
- 14. 1956 international incident over the nationalization of a canal
- 17. Line where the Korean War stalemated and still divides Korea
- 19. Soviet defection in Canada that exposed a spy ring in 1945
- 21. U.S. economic plan to revive European economies after WWII
- 24. Joint U.S.-Canada command to defend North American airspace
- 25. Period of political and military tension between the USA and USSR
Down
- 1. Soviet military alliance with Eastern Bloc nations
- 2. U.S. strategy to isolate Cuba during the missile crisis
- 3. Soviet attempt to force the Allies out of West Berlin
- 4. Gorbachev’s policy of openness and freedom of information
- 5. Canadian diplomat who proposed UN peacekeeping in 1956
- 8. U.S.-Soviet competition for achievements in outer space
- 9. Period of reduced Cold War tensions in the 1970s
- 10. Allied operation delivering supplies to West Berlin in 1948–49
- 12. First satellite intentionally placed in orbit, launched by the USSR in 1957
- 15. NASA mission that first landed humans on the Moon
- 16. Defensive alliance formed in 1949 to counter the Soviet threat
- 18. War between North and South Korea involving UN intervention
- 20. Churchill's metaphor for Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe
- 22. Gorbachev’s economic and political restructuring policy
- 23. 1945 meeting that exposed divisions between the Allies after WWII
