Chapter 28 - Section 5 - Crossword Labs

4. Having the military rule over a country. This happened in Poland and the U.S. condemned it.
9. The communist country that Pres. Nixion visited SECOND to ease Cold War tensions.
10. The U.S. president after Jimmy Carter who wanted to take a very strong stand against Communism in the world.
12. The new Soviet leader who began major reforms that caused the Communist government to weaken.
14. The country where Soviet troops began a war in 1979, causing more Cold War tensions to increase again.
15. The communist superpower that collapsed, or broke apart, in 1991 forming 15 new independent nations.
17. The U.S. president after Richard Nixion who continued the policy of detente.
18. A real-life symbol of the Cold War divisions between Communist and non-Communist countries.

1. The U.S. president when the Afghanistan war began.
2. A conference between the highest-ranking officials of different nations.
3. The Moscow politician who led Russians to protest against communism in 1990.
5. The Eastern European Soviet satellite nation that had free elections in 1989.
6. The policy of reducing tensions between superpowers by establishing more trade and limiting nuclear weapons.
7. The communist country that Pres. Nixion visited FIRST to ease Cold War tensions.
8. The communist leader of China that the U.S. refused to recognize as the leader at first.
9. The new weapons system that was developed to destroy Soviet missiles from space, but it was never needed.
11. The place where the U.S. athletes did NOT compete in the Olympics due to Cold War tensions.
13. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks which limited the amount of nuclear weapons countries could have.
16. The treaty between Pres. Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in which they agreed to get rid of their stockpiles of nuclear missles.
17. The Russian term for speaking out openly, which was allowed by Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.