SS Choice Board #1

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Across
  1. 2. A 103 mile wall between communist East Berlin & democratic West Berlin
  2. 4. First secretary of the communist party of USSR. Initiated space program that launched Sputnik 1. (He had the idea to place Nuclear Missiles in Cuba)
  3. 7. Kim Il Sung sent North Korea troops to South Korea. South Korea was where US had to take a stand against communist aggression
  4. 9. A 13-day event where US & USSR almost went into nuclear war
  5. 10. 4th most populated country with a powerful military. (With support from NATO)
  6. 12. USSR outlawed political parties or newspapers that opposed to communism, rigged elections, & jailed or killed political opponents
  7. 13. The act of spreading communism
  8. 14. The year the Berlin wall was destroyed
  9. 16. West European countries, Canada, US formed _______. This group believed USSR wouldn't attack West Europe if US launched nuclear warfare in return
  10. 17. US & USSR were ______________ because of their political strength & military power
  11. 18. The year the soviet union collapsed and marked the end of the Cold War. (15 independent countried were created, Russia being the largest)
  12. 19. People lived in fear that another world war would erupt because of ________. Each side thought the other was trying to rule the world
Down
  1. 1. After 30 years Germans voted for reunification & Germany was reunited
  2. 3. A time of distrust & rivalry between US & USSR for world leadership where neither side ever fired a shot (1945-1990)
  3. 5. Harsh dictator who sent many serfs to prison camps in Serbia for not giving their farms to them
  4. 6. An alliance, made to counter NATO, between the Soviet Union & it's communist satellite nations (Anti-Western military alliance)
  5. 8. USSR blockaded all land and water traffic to West Berlin (11 months long)
  6. 11. An imaginary dividing line between East & West Europe created by Winston Churchill
  7. 14. The beginning of a long period of distrust and misunderstanding between the soviet union & it's former allies
  8. 15. Spearheaded a "Witch hunt" fueled by fears of communism taking over. He infected the nation for anti-communist hysteria & ruined the lives of politicians, writers, & actors.