Across
- 3. The Middle Eastern territory where conflict continues over Jewish and Palestinian claims
- 7. The Chinese leader who reversed Mao’s policies and began market reforms
- 10. The conflict in which the U.S. removed missiles from Turkey and USSR removed missiles from Cuba
- 13. A U.S. financial aid program to rebuild Europe after WWII
- 14. The economic strategy to stop the spread of communism by boosting trade
- 18. The Soviet alliance formed in response to NATO
- 20. The wall that symbolized the divide between East and West during the Cold War
- 22. The island where the Chinese Nationalists fled after defeat
- 23. The form of government created in India after independence
- 25. The city that was blockaded by the Soviets in 1948
- 27. The Cold War policy of mutual nuclear destruction
- 28. The law in Japan’s new constitution that banned a military
- 29. The Communist forces that fought the U.S. in South Vietnam
- 31. The first Prime Minister of independent India
- 32. The U.S. general who led the occupation of Japan
- 34. A violent Chinese movement to erase traditional ideas and punish intellectuals
- 35. The Soviet leader who introduced Glasnost and Perestroika
Down
- 1. The UN principle that supports nations choosing their own government
- 2. The former French colony that fought a bloody war for independence from 1954 to 1962
- 4. The U.S. president who promoted the Strategic Defense Initiative
- 5. The Communist leader who won the Chinese Civil War
- 6. A massive operation that flew supplies into a divided German city
- 8. The canal nationalized by Egypt under Nasser
- 9. The country that experienced genocide in 1994 between Hutus and Tutsis
- 11. The leader of Egypt who nationalized key infrastructure and aligned with the USSR
- 12. March A march to protest British salt taxes in colonial India
- 15. The American-led alliance formed to stop Soviet expansion in Europe
- 16. A conference where the Allies decided to divide Germany after WWII
- 17. nonviolent leader of India’s independence movement
- 19. The name of the U.S. program proposing space-based missile defense
- 21. The country where the U.S. fought a long war to stop communism after French defeat
- 24. The South African leader who resisted Apartheid and became president
- 26. The system of racial segregation in South Africa
- 30. The failed Chinese economic plan that led to massive starvation
- 33. The Cold War term for the symbolic division between Eastern and Western Europe