The cold war

4. The major Cold War confrontation between U.S. and Soviet forces over the deployment of Soviet IRBMs in Cuba in 1962
7. Fundamental U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War in which the U.S. tried to contain Communism by preventing it from spreading to other countries.
9. As America's 34th president he ended the Korean War
10. Massive military build-up, especially of nuclear weapons, by both the Soviet Union and the United States
11. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.
14. Signed in 1955, it codified the East-West split

1. The struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
2. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
3. The form of government in the Soviet Union in which the state owned all means of production and was led by a centralized, authoritarian party.
4. A crossing point between West Berlin and East Berlin when the Berlin Wall divided the city.
5. A competition between the Soviet Union and the United States to prove their superiority in technology through increasingly impressive accomplishments in space.
6. A country that dominates in political and military power. During the Cold War, there were two
8. Having been accused of showing weakness at the Bay of Pigs, he established his credibility as a "cold warrior" by engaging in brinkmanship over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
12. A military alliance of Western European and North American states against the Soviet Union and its east European allies
13. After becoming president upon FDR's death, he ordered the dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki