Across
- 2. competition to get to the moon with U.S and Soviets
- 4. A man's maid object to orbit the earth
- 5. a decade long standoff between superpowers without military combat
- 6. economic system where the state owns the means of production
- 8. military alliance of western nations formed in 1949
- 10. 13-day standoff in 1962 over Soviet nukes in the caribbean
- 13. A nuclear weapon
- 17. divide between eastern and western Europe
- 18. economic system based on private ownership and free markets
- 19. The heart of Russian government
- 20. radioactive particles that drift down after a nuclear blast
Down
- 1. A country that is formally independent but under heavy control by others
- 3. U.S aimed to stop the policy's
- 7. nations that stayed neutral and did not pick a side
- 9. the Soviet led military alliance formed the counter NATO
- 11. an area under political control of a distant mother country
- 12. concrete barrier that divided a German city for nearly 30 years
- 14. system of brutal Soviet labor camps
- 15. 1950s conflict that divided a peninsula at the 38th parallel
- 16. direct communication between U.S and USSR leaders