The Space Race & Soviet Decline

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Across
  1. 1. First artificial satellite launched into orbit
  2. 3. First animal in space
  3. 5. U.S. agency created for space exploration
  4. 6. The Cold War conflict in which the USSR supported a regime against rebels
  5. 8. The political system of the USSR
  6. 11. country that got its independence after the USSR dissolved
  7. 12. The final leader of the Soviet Union
  8. 13. Economic restructuring reforms under Gorbachev
  9. 15. Reform focused on openness and transparency
Down
  1. 1. The trade union movement in Poland
  2. 2. Secret Soviet security agency involved in 1991 coup
  3. 4. country that got its independence after the USSR dissolved
  4. 7. a competition between the USSR and the US to achieve space technology.(2words no space)
  5. 9. U.S. event marking a major victory in the Space Race(2words no space)
  6. 10. This country reunited after the Berlin Wall fell
  7. 14. First country to send a human into space
  8. 16. Term for Soviet-controlled countries in Eastern Europe