Across
- 5. a list of people or groups who are under suspicion for something and are thus excluded from certain opportunities
- 6. Who became president in 1981
- 8. A competition to develop and manufacture more and more powerful weapons
- 9. What crisis did Cuba have
- 11. an economic system based on the idea that farms and businesses should be owned in common by the workers who do the labor
- 16. How did communism end
- 17. a U.S. aid plan designed to promote economic recovery in Europe after World War II
- 19. Why did America fight the USSR
- 20. What was Russia called
Down
- 1. Who was President
- 2. an international organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and cooperation among the world's nations
- 3. Who became the Soviet leader in 1986
- 4. It was called the Cold War because America and the USSR had no direct what _____.
- 7. What did both Americans and Europeans protest
- 10. the global struggle for power and influence between the United States and the Soviet Union that followed World War I
- 12. What did the US adopt because of an overwhelming threat
- 13. Who was the leader of the USSR
- 14. an economic system based on private ownership of farms and businesses.
- 15. Who was Kart Marx
- 18. War a war in which the superpowers backed different sides, which acted as substitutes for the superpowers themselves