The Cold War

3. Mutually Assured ___: strategy we used to avoid nuclear attack in the Cold War
6. ___ Union: America's biggest rival in the Cold War
7. Senator who accused people of being communists (last name)
11. defensive pact of capitalist democracies that still exists today
14. ideology that wants to eliminate private property and create equality for all
18. Soviet prison camp where Stalin might send you if you criticized him
19. ___ Pact: the communist counterpart to NATO
20. Strategy America used with the Truman Doctrine
21. Asian nation where America fought between 1965 and 1973
22. this nation was split into two after WWII into East and West

1. American President during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 (last name)
2. ___ Airlift: the West airdropped supplies to trapped citizens in Germany
4. leader of communist Cuba in the Cold War (last name)
5. 1962 site of a missile crisis
8. Iron ____: metaphor for the way the USSR separated itself from the rest of Europe
9. Bay of ___: where America tried to overthrow Cuba in 1961
10. ideology that seeks economic individualism and a free market
12. ___ Doctrine: wanted to contain communism
13. Asian nation that was divided in two during the early Cold War
15. Chinese Communist Party leader whose policies killed millions of Chinese
16. __ missiles were the greatest threat in the Cold War
17. Infamous communist dictator of Russia during World War II