Across
- 6. 1989 scene of demonstrations in Beijing China that were brutally suppressed
- 9. Polish union leader who organized resistance to communism in Poland and ended communist rule there in 1988
- 10. achieving goals through symbolic protests without using violence
- 11. defensive alliance formed in 1949 by wetern Europe, the US and others to defend against Soviet expansion
- 14. Israeli human rights activist, spent years in Soviet concentration camp for speaking out for human rights
- 17. tense cold war stand off between US and USSR over missiles in Cuba in 1962
- 19. war fought from 1950-1953 between South Korea and United Nations against N Korea and China
- 21. South African freedom fighter and leader of the African National Congress, first black president of South Africa
Down
- 1. Chinese leader who formulated China's economic modernization while retaining brutal communist political control
- 2. Polish pope who became the first non-Italian pope in over 400 years
- 3. late 1960's uprising led by the Red Guards in China
- 4. communist leader of the People's Republic of China Won Chinese civil war in 1949
- 5. policy of complete separation of the races
- 7. led the Indian independence movement with non violence and civil disobedience
- 8. cold war conflict involving the US and South Vietnam and North Vietnam in the 1960's and 70's
- 12. first woman prime minister of India, assassinated by her Sikh guards
- 13. the process of a colony moving to independence from an outside empire or force
- 15. communist Cambodian rebels who committed genocide as they attempted to transform Cambodia in the 1970's
- 16. curtain" term coined by Churchill to identify the boundary between eastern and western Europe after WWII
- 18. leader of Soviet Union from 1985-1991 who introduced perestroika and glasnost
- 20. policy of openness to ideas and information introduced by Gorbachev