Cold War Crossword

1. the US and Soviet Union controlled large spheres of influence and were considered what during the cold war?
5. Eastern European nations that were aligned with or under the pressure and control of the Soviet Union.
7. a metaphor referring to the political boundary dividing Eastern and Western Europe during the cold war.
8. the system in which communism is the form of government but is based on Marxist ideologies.
11. a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba.
12. a plan enacted by the U.S. in 1948 to give foreign aid to western Europe.
13. foreign nation policy strategy that aimed to block out or contain communism used by the U.S.
15. a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008.

2. One government controls another government.
3. the suppression of free speech, public informatinon, and trading of ideas.
4. a defensive treaty established by the Soviet Union and 7 Soviet Satellites.
6. a form of government that is centralized and few people hold all the power.
9. This Race was a technological competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union into space.
10. This Race between the U.S. and Soviet Union started when the Soviets developed their own nuclear bomb.
14. a Western military alliance formed after WW2.