Across
- 7. the US president that instituted "Star Wars" and launched a massive military build up to bankrupt the Soviets
- 9. these two nations became "fronts" to America's longest wars (War on Terror)
- 11. the communist Kyhmer Rouge committed genocide in this nation when it fell to Communism after the Vietnam War
- 13. this episode in China in 1989 "seemed" like a burst of liberty...until it was crushed
- 15. the attack on this US landmark in 2001 led to the 20 + year War on Terror for the US
- 16. the SE Asian nation that fell to communism in 1975 after the US withdrawal
- 17. the "movement" of developing nations to remain neutral in the Cold War
- 18. in 1993 this economic alliance (now also political) was formed between European nations
Down
- 1. this European nation broke apart in the early 90s, leading to years of "ethnic cleansing" and genocide
- 2. this was opened in 1989..."Mr Gorbechev...tear down this wall."
- 3. the movement and term for developing nations to gain independence in the Cold War era
- 4. Mao instituted "this" to regain political power and "cleanse" China of anti-Revolutionary thought
- 5. the democratic/ capitalist "China"
- 6. this Iraqi dictator was fought against by the US twice...toppled in 2003 by US forces
- 8. this African nation experienced civil war and genocide in 1993 between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis
- 9. re-created in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people
- 10. the Soviets invade this nation in 1979...their war fails there as ours did in Vietnam
- 12. the Soviet leader credited...or blamed (by communists) for the break-up of the USSR due to his reform movements
- 14. the US policy that believed if one SE Asian nation fell to communism, the others would as well