The Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. Instead of fighting each other directly, the USA and USSR participated in _____ wars in other countries.
  2. 9. _____, North Korea, Cuba, and China are still communist today.
  3. 13. The _____ Treaty placed limits on nuclear arms for the USA and USSR.
  4. 14. The _____ Plan helped war torn Europe rebuild.
  5. 15. Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel North, but is now _____ united communist country.
  6. 16. The USSR viewed these nations as a protective buffer between itself and Western Europe.
  7. 18. This pact was an alliance between the USSR and Eastern European states
  8. 20. This happens when countries behave in ways that bring them to the edge of war
  9. 21. Today, ______ Korea is ruled by a harsh communist dictator.
  10. 23. The USA waged a "_____" war in Laos during the Vietnam War.
  11. 25. In his doctrine President _____ promised to help countries resist communism
  12. 27. The Berlin Wall separated _____ and West Berlin.
  13. 28. Under the leadership of Ho ____ Minh, Vietnam was freed from French rule and became communist.
  14. 29. The _______ race between the USA and USSR began with the launching of the USSR's Sputnik satellite.
  15. 31. The _____ USA and the Communist USSR could not co-exist peacefully during the Cold War.
  16. 33. Soviet satellite states eventually _____ against the USSR because its communist policies resulted in a low standard of living.
  17. 35. America's attempt to stop the spread of communism
  18. 36. The Soviet _____ and China supported North Korea and North Vietnam during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
  19. 37. The Bay of _____ was a failed attempt by the USA to start a counter-revolution against Fidel Castro in Cuba.
Down
  1. 1. _____ was and is still divided at the 38th parallel north.
  2. 2. The USA pulled out of the Vietnam War for many reasons, including _____ over the draft and the killing of Vietnamese civilians.
  3. 3. The former Cold War superpowers, the USA and USSR, are still not on friendly terms today. Today, the former USSR is called _____ and is much smaller than it once was.
  4. 4. _____ Jong-un is the dictator of a nuclear North Korea today.
  5. 5. The mistakes of the Treaty of _____ were not repeated after World War II.
  6. 6. The easing of tensions between countries
  7. 7. Mikhail Gorbachev's _____ and perestroika policies helped end communism in the USSR.
  8. 8. The actions of the USA during the _____ War were motivated by its desire to maintain its status as a political and economic superpower.
  9. 10. _____ Zedong led China's Communist Revolution.
  10. 11. The USA supported _____-communist dictators in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
  11. 12. Cold War alliance between the USA and Western European nations
  12. 13. The _____ Union's actions during the Cold War were motivated by its desires to rebuild and protect itself after WWII.
  13. 17. Today, the USA is allies with its former WWII enemies of _____ and Germany, both of which are now capitalist democracies.
  14. 19. The Berlin Airlift provided food and supplies to _____ Berlin during the USSR's attempt to take it over.
  15. 22. Today, the Russian government under Vladimir _____ is not a true democracy.
  16. 24. _____ is one of the largest exporters of manufactured goods today.
  17. 26. The USA believed that countries in the continent of _____ would fall to communism like dominoes.
  18. 28. The USSR and USA solved a crisis when the USA promised not to invade _____ and the USSR removed its missiles there.
  19. 30. Under the orders of Serbia's Milosevic, ethnic _____ was perpetrated in Bosnia.
  20. 32. The _____ Curtain symbolically separated Eastern and Western Europe.
  21. 34. In China today, the government does not protect the _____ of all its people.