Topic 7 Crossword

1. USSR’s economic system
4. position of respect
7. a constitution
9. the strategy assuming that as long as two countries can destroy each other with nuclear weapons, they will be afraid to use them
11. a policy instituted by Gorbachev
14. not openly shown, hidden
15. a state of barrenness
17. the united states used this plan to keep European countries from turning to communist help
20. a chronic disease that thickens artery walls
21. a policy in which two countries’ hostilities toward one another are exploited to benefit a third country
22. US policy to contain Communism
23. the willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down

2. a policy that involves threating the use of nuclear weapons to avoid potential war
3. a policy that attempts to relax tensions
5. a soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues
6. a war that never had any actual warfare
8. a meeting between government leaders
10. ability to last for a long time
12. to accumulate or gain
13. lacking interest or concern
15. a nation whose economy is mainly agricultural and is creating a basis for industrial development
16. United States’ economic system
18. a fictional curtain dividing europe by ideology
19. state of oppression