Module 6 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Bombs an immensely powerful bomb whose destructive power comes from the rapid release of energy during the nuclear fusion of isotopes of hydrogen
  2. 6. Arms Race an arms race competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.
  3. 8. a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
  4. 10. Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba
  5. 13. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
  6. 14. Wall a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic.
  7. 15. War fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.
  8. 16. 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite
Down
  1. 1. Gagarin a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space
  2. 3. Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who in 1969 became the first person to walk on the Moon
  3. 4. War a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was a major conflict of the Cold War.
  4. 5. Assured Destruction Mutual assured destruction is a doctrine of military strategy and national security policy which posits that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by an attacker on a nuclear-armed defender with second-strike capabilities would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
  5. 7. Reagan STAR WARS a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons
  6. 9. Race a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability
  7. 11. Shepherd was an American astronaut. In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space
  8. 12. Gorbachev a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union
  9. 14. Aldrin an American former astronaut, engineer and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission