AKS 48 Crossword

5. Explosive devices that use nuclear reactions, developed and stockpiled by world powers during and after World War II.
7. A period of political tension and military rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II, lasting until 1991.
8. A country established in 1948 as a homeland for Jews, leading to ongoing conflict with neighboring Arab nations.
12. A leader of Indian independence who promoted nonviolence and civil disobedience to resist British rule.
15. The systematic, state-sponsored genocide of six million Jews, justified the creation of a Jewish state
16. A long-standing political and military conflict between Israel and various Arab nations and groups, largely over land and national identity.
17. A geographic region in the Middle East that is the historic home of the Arabs in the region
18. The communist leader of China who led the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 until his death in 1976.
19. A wall built in 1961 dividing East and West Berlin, symbolizing the Cold War and communist repression, and torn down in 1989.

1. An economic and social campaign by Mao Zedong in China (1958–1962) that aimed to rapidly industrialize the country but led to widespread famine.
2. A system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa that lasted from 1948 to the early 1990s.
3. A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to build more powerful weapons during the Cold War.
4. The practice of achieving social or political change through peaceful protest, as promoted by leaders like Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
6. A mass protest led by the Indian National Congress in 1942 demanding an end to British rule in India.
9. A type of nuclear weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb, developed during the Cold War by both the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
10. The leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party who opposed Mao Zedong’s Communists and later fled to Taiwan after the Chinese Civil War.
11. A site in Beijing, China where pro-democracy protests in 1989 were violently suppressed by the Chinese government.
13. Peace agreements made in the 1990s between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization aiming to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
14. The idea that if two opposing sides both have nuclear weapons, using them would result in the total destruction of both sides.