Post War Crossword

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  1. 4. A policy by which neither superpower would fire a nuclear weapon for fear of destroying themselves in the retaliating fire
  2. 6. WALL a wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
  3. 11. An economic system in which goods are privately owned or owned by shareholders that have invested money in order to make a profit
  4. 12. A defence agreement signed between Canada and the USA
  5. 13. PARALLEL Line that divides North and South Korea
  6. 14. POWER A nation that is not a superpower but has international influence (Two words.)
  7. 16. PACT A post-WW2 alliance involving the USSR and other Eastern European countries (Two words)
  8. 18. Policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union
  9. 19. MISSILE CRISIS A confrontation between the U.S. and USSR when the U.S. discovered the Soviets were supplying neighbouring Cuba with nuclear missiles
  10. 21. Lester ______ helped the UN work out a solution to the Suez Crisis
  11. 23. strategic arms reduction negotiations aimed at freezing the number of long range nuclear missiles
Down
  1. 1. Country invaded by Iraq
  2. 2. Peace by force
  3. 3. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe
  4. 5. a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society
  5. 7. One of the Big Five members of the UNs security council
  6. 8. NATIONS An organization established in 1945 to bring peace and security to the world (Two Words)
  7. 9. The _____ Health Organization is responsible for providing leadership in global health
  8. 10. CURTAIN: Winston Churchills term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West
  9. 14. Canadian prime minister who improved relations with the U.S. and signed the FTA and NAFTA trade agreements:
  10. 15. LINE Radar stations in northern Canada (Two Words)
  11. 17. The worlds first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US
  12. 20. The defence organization set up to protect several Western nations
  13. 22. UNION The communist superpower in the Cold War. (Two Words)
  14. 23. "Star Wars," President Reagans proposed the construction of an elaborate computer-controlled, anti-missile defense system capable of destroying enemy missiles in outer space.