Tanner's Cold War/Pop Culture Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Ordered a navy blockade during Cuban MIssile Crisis
  2. 3. built 1961;fell 1989
  3. 6. American Capitalism vs Communism
  4. 9. a conflict where major powers support combatants (states or non-state actors) to fight on their behalf, avoiding direct confrontation with each other
  5. 11. Rocket launch that scared the USA
  6. 12. The only war that the U.S. took a loss in
  7. 13. War went on from 1950-1953
  8. 14. Shot down a U2 spy plane
  9. 16. the year sputnik was launched
  10. 17. nominally independent nations that are under the heavy political, economic, and military influence or control of a more powerful country
  11. 18. How many losses did America take in the Vietnam War?
Down
  1. 1. What does NASA stand for?
  2. 2. timeline of Berlin Airlift
  3. 4. Americans flew 1.5 million tons of supplies to this country
  4. 5. Goal was to promote state and people, not individual
  5. 7. June 1948-May 1949
  6. 8. Goal was freedom of choice
  7. 10. Communist who took over Cuba in 1959
  8. 15. Arrested for giving atomic secrets to Russia in 1951
  9. 16. Year of Cuban Missile Crisis