Cold War

2. Massive military build-up, especially of nuclear weapons, by both the Soviet Union and the United States in an effort to gain military superiority.
5. The struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
8. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) were negotiations between the Soviet Union and the United States to limit the number of newly created nuclear weapons.
9. An economic theory in which collective ownership of property leads to a classless society.
11. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), also commonly called the Soviet Union
12. President Ronald Reagan's plan to research, develop, and build a space-based system that could destroy incoming nuclear missiles.
14. A country that dominates in political and military power.
15. A crossing point between West Berlin and East Berlin when the Berlin Wall divided the city.

1. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states
3. MAD was the guarantee that if one superpower launched a massive nuclear attack, the other would reciprocate by also launching a massive nuclear attack, and both countries would be destroyed.
4. Fundamental U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War in which the U.S. tried to contain Communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries.
6. residual radioactive material propelled into the upper atmosphere following a nuclear blast
7. United states of america
8. A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to prove their superiority in technology through increasingly impressive accomplishments in space
10. The concern within the U.S. that the Soviet Union had greatly surpassed the U.S. in its stockpile of nuclear missiles.
13. A direct line of communication between the White House and the Kremlin established in 1963. Often called the "red telephone."