The cold war

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Across
  1. 3. – The launch of this satellite marked the beginning of the space race.
  2. 5. – Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms helped lead to the end of the Cold War and Soviet collapse.
  3. 8. – As in Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), a doctrine that prevented nuclear war.
Down
  1. 1. – The Korean War was the first major armed conflict of the Cold War era.
  2. 2. – The Berlin Wall became the most iconic symbol of the Cold War divide.
  3. 4. – President John F. Kennedy faced down the Soviets during the 1962 missile crisis.
  4. 6. – Short for containment, a strategy to stop the spread of communism globally.
  5. 7. – The Warsaw Pact was the Eastern Bloc's military alliance in response to NATO.