Age of Exploration & Cold War Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. US and USSR making more weapons to prove Military Superiority against each other
  2. 9. Military Alliance between 31 countries
  3. 11. Millions of enslaved Africans brought (shipped) to America during the trade between Africa, Europe, and America (_____ Passage)
  4. 12. Metaphor to describe the boundary separating countries in Eastern Europe controlled by the Soviet from the rest of the world
  5. 13. Leader of Russia throughout WWII and he transformed Russia
  6. 14. A policy to reconstruct the political and economic systems of the soviet union
  7. 18. Italian Explorer who wrote a book about his experience
  8. 20. This war started with country split in two and one side was controlled by the Soviet Union and the other side was controlled by the US (____ War)
  9. 21. An invasion on how the Aztec Empire fell (what caused it) (Invasion of _____)
  10. 23. US dropping supplies into a certain cut-off area of Europe
  11. 24. Previously independent countries that are now under the influence and control of the Soviet Union after WWII (_____ States)
  12. 25. Spanish conquistador that conquered the Incas and killed their leader
  13. 27. First person to explore the Americas
Down
  1. 1. To help the democratic nations not fall under communism
  2. 2. Final eighth leader of the Soviet union (Mikhail _____)
  3. 3. This exchange was a transfer of plants, animals, and culture between continents (_____ Exchange)
  4. 5. A trade with raw materials, manufactured goods, Enslaved Africans (____trade)
  5. 6. A type of government that is a classless society and shares all benefits
  6. 7. A proposal that stated the US would provide economic assistance for countries to keep them out of Communism
  7. 8. Defense treaty between Soviet Union and Satellite States
  8. 10. A U.S. policy to prevent the expansion of communism
  9. 15. Believed that a nation's power is based on its wealth
  10. 16. A wall that separated the East and West of this country to get away from communism (___ Wall)
  11. 17. A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico in the 1500’s
  12. 19. An economic system in which private owners control a country’s trade and industry for profit
  13. 22. an area where a foreign nation holds control over the native people
  14. 26. Ancient civilization in central Mexico that was conquered by Spain