Across
- 5. a military strategy used to surround an area (such as a port, coastline, or city) and prevent people, goods, or information from entering or leaving
- 6. it was a race against russia to the moon
- 9. a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states (Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania)
- 11. he was president during the Korean war
- 13. the symbolic, political, and physical barrier dividing communist Eastern Europe (Soviet sphere) from democratic Western Europe during the Cold War (1945-1991)
- 14. a big operation where the U.S. and its allies flew food, fuel, and supplies into West Berlin
Down
- 1. 33rd president of the U.S.A
- 2. a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons
- 3. a failed 1961 CIA-backed invasion of Cuba by U.S.-trained Cuban exiles intended to overthrow Fidel Castro
- 4. a country south of florida
- 6. leader of russia
- 7. mutually assured destruction
- 8. a group of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe
- 10. the name of the Soviet Union's series of the first artificial Earth satellites
- 12. a competitive buildup of military strength