Cold War Crossword

2. A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over missile sites in Cuba
4. A military operation that brought food and needed goods to West Berlin
8. A Soviet Astronaut
10. Fought between South Korea and North Korea
13. Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
14. Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues
17. Political and economic reforms
18. Physical barrier that symbolized the political divisions of the time
19. Helps prevent the spread of communism
20. The First American to orbit Earth
21. The First Satellite

1. Republican Senator from Wisconsin
3. The willingness to go to the brink of war to force the other side to back down
5. Failed attack launched by the CIA
6. A soviet resort on the Black Sea
7. The Communist Countries of Eastern Europe
9. When countries "race" to improve military equipment
11. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
12. Gives European nations American aid to rebuild economies
15. The communist nations
16. A geopolitical strategic foreign policy