Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. Financial Aid to Europe following WWII
  2. 8. Leader who the U.S. supported and who was overthrown by Castro
  3. 10. Very cold battle during the Korean War in which U.S. troops were outnumbered by Communists
  4. 11. 38th parallel
  5. 12. Leader of the Cuban Revolution
  6. 13. Country Khrushchev demanded Kennedy remove nuclear missiles from Cubanmissilecrisis U.S. and Soviet Union engage in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff
  7. 15. land and capital are owned by the community rather than the individual
  8. 16. foreign policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism by diplomatic, political, and economic means
  9. 17. Economically and technologically less developed countries belonging to neither bloc. Arguably more impacted by the Cold War than anyone else
  10. 18. 1,400 U.S. trained Cuban exiles led by the CIA tried to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
Down
  1. 1. Set the tone for the U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War
  2. 2. The Soviet Union, Soviet Bloc, and China
  3. 4. The U.S. and allies
  4. 5. land and capital are privately owned
  5. 6. the U.S., Russia, Great Britain, and China are permanent members of this and have veto power
  6. 7. Tries to maintain international peace and security
  7. 8. Following a blockade of Berlin by the Soviet Union, the U.S. carried in via planes more than 2.3 million tons of food to West Berlin.
  8. 9. This part of Germany went to the U.S. and its allies after WWII
  9. 14. period in which global conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union dominated international affairs, roughly between 1945 and 1991