Background of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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Across
  1. 5. Seizure of foreign-owned property by the Cuban government
  2. 6. Codename for the US covert campaign to destabilise Castro
  3. 7. Country where the CIA trained Cuban exiles for invasion
  4. 8. Risky confrontation strategy associated with the Cuba crisis
  5. 13. Geographical region including North America, South America, Central America, and the Caribbean
  6. 17. Organisation from which Cuba was expelled in 1962
  7. 18. Country where the US had stationed missiles near the Soviet Union
  8. 19. European flashpoint linked to Khrushchev’s search for leverage
  9. 20. US vice-president who met Castro and initially did not see him as an outright communist
Down
  1. 1. US-backed Cuban dictator overthrown in 1959
  2. 2. Site of the failed April 1961 anti-Castro invasion
  3. 3. City where Kennedy and Khrushchev met in June 1961
  4. 4. 1823 US policy opposing further European colonisation in the Western Hemisphere
  5. 9. Soviet leader who backed Cuba and later placed missiles there
  6. 10. Cuba’s key crop at the centre of trade disputes with the US and USSR
  7. 11. Cuban revolutionary who entered Havana on New Year’s Day 1959
  8. 12. US president humiliated by the failed invasion in 1961
  9. 14. Weapons the Soviets began placing in Cuba in 1962
  10. 15. US trade restriction imposed on Cuba
  11. 16. Capital city entered by Castro after Batista fled