Across
- 3. a U.S.-sponsored program implemented after World War II to help European countries that had been destroyed in the conflict
- 5. proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks
- 7. a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
- 8. the practice of trying to achieve an advantageous outcome by pushing dangerous events to the brink of active conflict
- 9. failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro from power
- 14. Leader of USSR at the End of WW2 / beginning of Cold War
- 15. a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II
- 17. Leader of USSR at End of Cold War
- 18. US President that was in power during the Bay of Pigs & Cuban Missile Crisis
- 20. the guarantee that if one superpower launched a massive nuclear attack, the other would reciprocate by also launching a massive nuclear attack, and both countries would be destroyed (Acronym)
- 21. hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War
- 22. a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe
- 24. an ideology or system based on the idea that the property of a community should be owned collectively and shared among everyone
- 25. period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979
Down
- 1. means "restructuring" and refers to a series of political and economic reforms meant to kick-start the stagnant 1980s economy
- 2. a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
- 3. the practice of making accusations of subversion and treason, especially when related to anarchism, communism, and socialism
- 4. means increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union
- 6. The President who said the famous line, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"
- 10. competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the U.S. and the former USSR during the Cold War
- 11. the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies
- 12. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
- 13. The _______________ theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos
- 16. competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities
- 19. built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin
- 23. an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin