Cold War crossword puzzle!!

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  1. 2. soviets shipped nuclear weapons and troops to Cuba to invade, and other events almost lead to a nuclear war.
  2. 7. the belief that if a nuclear weapons was launched, both worlds including the one who shot it and the one who received it would be completely demolished.
  3. 8. gave money to Turkey and Greece to get them not to turn to communism.
  4. 9. a war that was fought over if the place would become communist or not. This war ended with the north and south united and not communists.
  5. 12. a war that was fought over if the place would become communist or not. This war didn't unite the north and south at the end, and they are still split today in this country as north or south.
  6. 14. a wall that divided east and west Germany. was taken down in 1989.
  7. 15. a war of political tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. There was never a big war, but many different wars during this period for different reasons.
Down
  1. 1. one step away from a nuclear war happening.
  2. 3. when the U.S. and U.S.S.R. tried to have more or better weapons than each other, leading to both the powers to stock on nuclear weapons.
  3. 4. a race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to see who could get to space first.
  4. 5. ____ was the goal to try and stop the spread of communism to other countries.
  5. 6. a metaphoric political border between the 1st and 2nd world countries.
  6. 10. one of the presidents during the cold war. he was president during the Vietnam war and the Cuban Missle Crisis.
  7. 11. the plan that would help Europe recover from WW2 and so they would not turn to communists.
  8. 13. the country that the U.S. had nuclear weapons stored in, and never took them out of even though they promised to.