Across
- 1. Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.
- 5. The ___________ of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which resulted in the end of its existence as a sovereign state.
- 6. last president of the soviet union
- 8. 33rd president of the United States
- 9. A war that caused by North Korea getting permission to invade the south 1950-1953
- 10. a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union
- 16. the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam 1955-1975
- 20. A ideolgy for advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
- 21. 34th president of the united states
- 22. Prime minister of the UK throughout WW2
- 23. the world’s first artificial satellite
- 25. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- 26. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
- 28. was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union,Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria that set up a unified military command
Down
- 2. the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima
- 3. First man on the moon
- 4. 38th president of the united states
- 7. Leader of the soviet union until 1953
- 11. 37th President of the United States
- 12. A guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin to East Berlin
- 13. the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki
- 14. the first american in space
- 15. the CIA, under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy, launched the Bay of Pigs Invasion, which sent 1400 american trained cuban exiles
- 17. leader of the soviet union after Joseph Stalins's death
- 18. was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba
- 19. United Nations
- 24. the 35th president of the US and the 4th president to be assassinated
- 27. the infamous mission to put a man on the moon