Cold war/March 12, 1947 – December 3, 1989/P6/ER

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Across
  1. 3. U.S. involved conflict from 1955-1975.
  2. 8. Economic restructuring in the USSR under Gorbachev.
  3. 10. Divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
  4. 11. 1962 standoff between U.S. and USSR over missiles in Cuba.
  5. 14. competition for achievements in space exploration.
  6. 17. Belief that communism would spread country by country.
  7. 18. Period of eased Cold War tensions in the 1970s.
  8. 19. The symbolic division between Eastern and western Europe.
  9. 20. U.S. promise to support countries resisting communism.
Down
  1. 1. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks between U.S. and USSR.
  2. 2. Competition between the U.S. and USSR to build weapons.
  3. 4. First article satellite launched by the USSR in 1957.
  4. 5. Last leader of the soviet Union, introduced reforms.
  5. 6. Soviet-led alliance of Eastern bloc countries.
  6. 7. U.S. aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWll.
  7. 9. 1950-1953 conflict between North and South Korea.
  8. 12. Anti-communist accusations in the U.S.during the 1950s.
  9. 13. Military alliance of Western nations.
  10. 15. U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism.
  11. 16. U.S. and allies supplied West Berlin by air in 1948-49.