Cold War

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Across
  1. 4. Superpower that led the East.
  2. 6. U.S. President who began the “Doctrine” to contain communism.
  3. 7. Economic system of the USA and its allies.
  4. 8. Competition to explore beyond Earth.
  5. 10. Competition to build more powerful weapons.
  6. 11. Country divided into North and South, fought over in 1950–1953.
  7. 13. Military alliance of the West, created in 1949.
  8. 14. Superpower that led the West.
Down
  1. 1. – Political system of the USSR and its allies.
  2. 2. Symbolic divide between East and West Europe.
  3. 3. Nuclear weapons were placed in Cuba.
  4. 5. German city split into East and West.
  5. 8. Term for the USA and USSR during the Cold War.
  6. 9. Island where a 1962 missile crisis occurred.
  7. 12. Built in 1961 to keep East Germans from fleeing.