Cuban Missile Crisis

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Across
  1. 2. liberation - conflicts fought by nations to gain independence
  2. 5. Abel - Soviet intelligence officer, convicted in the United States in 1957 for conspiring to transmit military secrets to the Soviet Union
  3. 8. Lady - an American single-jet engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency.
  4. 9. - failed to communicate well
  5. 13. - a republic in the Caribbean, south of Florida
  6. 14. Castro - leader of Cuba during the missile crisis
  7. 15. of Pigs - The location of a failed attempt by Cuban exiles to invade Cuba in 1961
  8. 17. - an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
  9. 18. Plane - A reconnaissance aircraft is a military aircraft designed or adapted to perform aerial reconnaissance with roles including collection of imagery intelligence (including using photography), signals intelligence, as well as measurement and signature intelligence
Down
  1. 1. F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States
  2. 3. - an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force
  3. 4. Khrushchev - leader of the soviet union during the Cuban missile crisis
  4. 6. Gary Powers - Francis Gary Powers was an American pilot whose Central Intelligence Agency Lockheed U-2 spy plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace, causing the 1960 U-2 incident.
  5. 7. - talking amongst others
  6. 10. - the Central Intelligence Agency
  7. 11. world - used to define countries not aligned with NATO or the Warsaw pact
  8. 12. - a person who secretly collects and reports information on the activities, movements, and plans of an enemy or competitor.
  9. 16. square - largest and oldest square in moscow