Cold war - 7 - DCM

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Across
  1. 2. Conflict supported by rival powers but not directly fought by them
  2. 4. Proxy war on the Korean peninsula
  3. 6. Churchill's metaphor for the division between East and West Europe
  4. 10. competition between the U.S. and USSR to be the first to explore space
  5. 11. International peacekeeping body formed after WWII
  6. 15. Belief that communism would spread from one country to the next
  7. 16. Leader of soviet Union at the start of the Cold War; Known for his authoritarian rule and role in establishing the Eastern Bloc
  8. 17. U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism
  9. 19. U.S. economic aid to rebuild Western Europe
  10. 20. Conflict involving the U.S. to stop communism in Southeast Asia
Down
  1. 1. U.S. policy to aid countries resisting communism
  2. 3. Period of eased tensions in the 1970's
  3. 5. Strategic arms limitation agreements
  4. 7. Communist state led by Russia
  5. 8. Failed U.S. Backed invasion of Cuba in 1961
  6. 9. First artificial satelite launched by the USSR in 1957
  7. 12. Military alliance of Western powers
  8. 13. Physical barrier dividing East and West Berlin
  9. 14. Competition to build up nuclear weapons
  10. 18. Nuclear standoff in Cuba between the U.S. and USSR