Cold War Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. The moment where the USSR and USA came closest to nuclear conflict.
  2. 7. Cambodian revolutionary and politician who governed Cambodia as the Prime Minister
  3. 8. World Organization formed in response to the exigencies of the developing Cold War.
  4. 9. Person that led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
  5. 12. war between North Korea, with military support from China and the Soviet Union, and South Korea backed by personnel from the United Nations.
  6. 13. Competition between two Cold War adversaries to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
  7. 15. Promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism
  8. 17. A hydrogen aerial bomb and is the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested.
  9. 19. The political theory used by the USSR
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  1. 1. A World War II hero and former commander of NATO who became U.S. president in 1953.
  2. 2. a period of ideological and geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, and their respective allies.
  3. 3. Started when the USSR launched an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin.
  4. 5. American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States.
  5. 6. The political theory used by the USA
  6. 10. long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam.
  7. 11. United States of America
  8. 14. Competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons.
  9. 16. The nationalist, Communist leader of the Viet Minh movement
  10. 18. served as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. Became president in 1969.
  11. 20. The socialist state that spanned most of Europe and Asia during its existence from 1922 to 1991.