CUban Missile Crisis 1962

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Across
  1. 5. What Castro had to take from the USSR
  2. 6. 1,500 Cuban ____ used instead of US Army so they wouldn't get blamed
  3. 7. What Kennedy didn't want to use
  4. 8. Became US president in 1961
  5. 11. What Castro did to (mainly American) businesses
  6. 15. Country that was left alone after the crisis
  7. 16. Thought Kennedy was foolish
  8. 19. Came into power in Cuba in 1959
  9. 21. Missiles in Cuba were used as a 'B________ tool'
  10. 25. Castro was not this in the beginning
  11. 27. Castro announced he was Communist in _______ 1961
  12. 28. US didn't want a ______ war with the USSR
Down
  1. 1. How many million were estimated to be killed after a missile hit America?
  2. 2. Treaty signed by superpowers in 1963
  3. 3. Kennedy's response to the crisis
  4. 4. Where US army was at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion
  5. 6. President who first backed Bay of Pigs invasion
  6. 9. Nuclear missiles on Cuba ______ the USSR
  7. 10. USSR's most powerful bomb in the world
  8. 12. What the US had to pull out of Cuba (benefitted USSR)
  9. 13. 1960 agreement signed by the USSR pledging to buy 1,000,000 tonnes of what each year
  10. 14. The type of protection Cuba got from USSR (missile sites built there
  11. 17. Was set up between the 2 leaders at the end of the Crisis
  12. 18. Where Cuban exile's invaded to cause a 'national uprising' and remove Castro
  13. 20. 'First Strike ________'
  14. 22. Patrolled throughout the crisis
  15. 23. Had missiles In Turkey Khrushchev wanted removing
  16. 24. They made 14 attempts to murder Castro
  17. 26. Who supported Cuban exile's invasion of the Bay Of Pigs