The Cold War

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Across
  1. 1. Long-range missiles capable of carrying nukes
  2. 4. The "Race" to build more powerful weapons
  3. 6. The alert system for U.S. military readiness
  4. 8. Going to the edge of war to get an opponent to back down
  5. 9. Theory that if one country falls, its neighbors will too
  6. 11. President who promised aid to nations resisting communism
  7. 13. The "Pact" formed by the Soviets in 1955
  8. 15. Radioactive particles from a nuclear blast
  9. 17. Type of spy plane shot down over the USSR in 1960
  10. 19. Policy of stopping the spread of communism
  11. 20. Western military alliance formed in 1949
Down
  1. 2. Leader who took power in Cuba in 1959
  2. 3. Churchill’s term for the divide across Europe
  3. 5. The first man-made satellite (1957)
  4. 7. How the West supplied Berlin during the 1948 blockade
  5. 10. The "Plan" that sent billions to rebuild Europe
  6. 12. The "Forgotten War" of the early 1950s
  7. 14. A nation controlled by the Soviet Union
  8. 16. Kennedy’s term for the naval blockade of Cuba
  9. 18. A war where superpowers support opposing sides