Cold War Crossword

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  1. 2. Intercontinental ballistic Nuclear Missile.
  2. 3. A Soviet satellite that launched the Space Race.
  3. 5. An economic system with free markets and no government intervention
  4. 6. German city that was divided by a physical wall.
  5. 11. He was president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and was the one to establish NASA.
  6. 12. An ideological barrier between east and west Europe after World War II that was put in place by the USSR.
  7. 13. Soviets tried to move nuclear arms to this US neighbor
  8. 15. The leader of the protests in India against British rule. He put emphasis on peaceful protests.
  9. 16. The reforms put in place by Soviet leader Gorbachev in 1985.
  10. 21. Also known as the Truman Doctrine, allowed for the US to send aid to democratic countries that were under threat of communism.
  11. 22. The British prime minister during World War II as well as for some time during the Cold War.
  12. 24. A set of racist and discriminatory laws in South Africa.
  13. 25. A form of economics in which all property is owned by the state.
  14. 27. The leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. He industrialized the Soviet Union but at the cost of millions of his citizens.
  15. 28. Also known as FDR, he was the American president during World War II and was present for many of the conferences and treaties that were done during that period.
  16. 29. Set up by the US during the space race to come up with innovative technology to get the upper hand against the USSR.
  17. 30. An anticommunist senator from Wisconsin that added to the “Red Scare” in America.
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  1. 1. International organization formed to try to prevent another world war.
  2. 4. Competition between the USSR and the USA to have control over space security.
  3. 7. An organization set up by the US, Canada, and other western European countries to defend against communism.
  4. 8. The first proxy war fought between the US and USSR/China.
  5. 9. An agreement between eastern European countries and the USSR to defend communism in Europe.
  6. 10. The founder and dictator of North Korea.
  7. 14. A group of communist rebels in Southern Vietnam.
  8. 17. Another proxy war fought between the Soviets and the US in former French Indochina.
  9. 18. A military leader in the Cuban Revolution
  10. 19. The first man on the moon.
  11. 20. Vietnamese leader during the Vietnam War, former communist president of Vietnam.
  12. 23. Failed invasion of Cuba funded by the US.
  13. 26. President of the US who declared that we would go to the moon