Cuban Missile Crisis of the 1960s

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Across
  1. 2. - U.S. military readiness level.
  2. 3. - U.S. president during the crisis.
  3. 4. - Avoided by diplomacy.
  4. 7. - Alternative term for the blockade.
  5. 9. - Cuban leader.
  6. 11. - U.S. adversary.
  7. 12. - Island at the center of the crisis.
  8. 13. - Ended the standoff peacefully.
Down
  1. 1. - U.S. naval strategy.
  2. 3. - Soviet leader during the standoff.
  3. 5. - Standoff nearly leading to war.
  4. 6. - Nuclear weapon involved.
  5. 8. - Type of weapons involved.
  6. 10. - Month of the 1962 crisis.
  7. 11. - U-2 planes used for surveillance.