"5 Cold War Close Calls" Worksheet

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Across
  1. 5. The Able Archer 83 Exercise took place in this month.
  2. 8. Kennedy and Khrushchev found a peaceful resolution to this the day after the U-2 Spy Plane Incident.
  3. 13. Union The plane had crossed over the boarder into the ________.
  4. 14. The ________ exercise ended without incident.
  5. 15. The warning was simply a _______.
  6. 16. The president's ________ was ordered to take off.
  7. 17. Year the U-2 Spy Plane Incident took place
  8. 18. Petrov made a risky decision to _____ the warning alarms.
Down
  1. 1. The realistic simulation of this almost resulted in the actual outbreak of it.
  2. 2. B-59's second in command
  3. 3. technology used to monitor possible nuclear attacks
  4. 4. An alarm sounded signaling the United States had fired _____ Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.
  5. 6. Pilot of the U-2 Spy Plane
  6. 7. These countries prepared their fighter jets.
  7. 9. One of the satellites had misinterpreted the glint of ________ off the clouds as a missile.
  8. 10. B-59 belonged to the ________.
  9. 11. B-59 was dangerous because it was a _______submarine.
  10. 12. Technicians received an urgent alert that the _______ had launched a barrage of missiles at North America.
  11. 13. bunker where the Soviets monitored detection systems