The Cold War

2. North Atlantic Treaty Organization
5. Former president of the Soviet Union
7. Had tension against the US during the Cold War
8. Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America that were aligned with the Soviet Union
10. An American foreign policy that pledges American "support for democracies against authoritarian threats."
12. Major confrontation that brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to war.
14. An economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the Soviet Union that comprised the countries of the Eastern Bloc
15. a type of government as well as an economic system. A way of creating and sharing wealth

1. An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
3. A collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
4. A geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.
6. A failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961
9. A barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin
11. The countries allied with the NATO against the Soviet Union and its allies.
13. A period of competition between the Soviet Union and the United States over who could conquer space exploration first.