Contemporary Period Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. successor of Barack Obama
  2. 6. Soviet politician who led from 1924 to 1953
  3. 7. study of genes
  4. 10. the system of segregation that was once active in South Africa
  5. 12. the process of states becoming independent from a colony
  6. 16. the political ideology derived by Karl Marx
  7. 18. the first President of South Africa
  8. 19. founder of People's Republic of China
  9. 21. produces a very narrow beam of light
  10. 23. what split North and South Korea
  11. 24. United States President assassinated in 1963
  12. 25. dictator of Germany
  13. 26. active military alliance from 1949
  14. 28. the target of a Russian invasion in 2022
  15. 29. period of tension between the Eastern and Western Blocs
  16. 30. social movement regarding sexuality in the western world
Down
  1. 1. led China through a series of economic reforms
  2. 2. alliance formed by the Eastern Bloc that ended 1991
  3. 3. attack on the world trade center
  4. 5. United States and Soviet Union fight over the moon
  5. 8. global network of billions of devices
  6. 9. recent pandemic of international concern
  7. 11. a source of energy that is naturally replenished in a human lifetime
  8. 13. the first African-American President of the United States
  9. 14. the incumbent President of Russia
  10. 15. war in Vietnam, Laos
  11. 17. the location olympics where terrorists killed 12 victims
  12. 20. state formed in 1948
  13. 22. a war of the ongoing conflict of Arab and Israeli peoples
  14. 27. the incumbent President of the United States