Cold War

2. the USSR invaded ________ to protect its' communist government & failed
6. Gorbachevs policy to fix the Soviet economy using capitalist practices
7. the ______ Missile Crisis saw the US & the USSR on the brink of nuclear war
8. the _____ Plan provided economic relief to Western Europe after WWII
11. the US policy that focused on containing the spread of communism
13. the easing of cold war tensions
14. the US president who promised to send aid/supplies to any nation facing a communist threat
17. the ideology of the United States during the Cold War
19. when a country pushes a situation towards the brink of war
22. the US & UK led the Berlin _______ to bring food/supplies to West Berlin after Stalin blockades it
24. The military alliance between the US and European nations
25. First democratically elected president of the Russian Federation
27. Gorbachevs policy of oppeness: free speech, press
28. the ideology of the USSR during the Cold War

1. the current leader of Russia
3. The last leader of the USSR
4. the ______ Wall was built to separate East & West Germany
5. The war in ________ saw US Containment Policy fail as the Vietcong succeeded
9. the US President who told Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall
10. Today, _________ is split into a communist North & capitalist South
12. the arms race between the USSR & the US focused on _____ weapons
13. the policy to get rid of all things Stalin
15. the acronym for Mutually Assured Destruction
16. the leader of the USSR after Stalin died
18. the treaty signed between the US & USSR that limited the arms race
20. Winston Churchill stated that an _____ curtain descended across Europe
21. the conference at which the seeds of the Cold War were planted
23. the ______ Pact was a military alliance between the USSR & its satellites
26. A nation under the influence of a foreign power