Across
- 3. Union European political and economic union
- 5. Plan U.S. aid rebuilding Europe to block communism
- 6. Race U.S. Soviet competition in space
- 9. global connections through trade and culture
- 11. Curtain divide between communist East and democratic West
- 12. easing of Cold War tensions
- 13. Missile Crisis 1962 nuclear standoff in Cuba
- 16. Proliferation spread of nuclear weapons
- 17. Pact Soviet military alliance in Eastern Europe
- 18. economic restructuring in Soviet Union
Down
- 1. Leap Forward failed industrial push causing mass famine
- 2. Assured Destruction (MAD) both sides destroyed in nuclear war
- 4. openness and freedom in Soviet Union
- 7. Theory one country falls others follow
- 8. dominant global power nation
- 10. stopping the spread of communism
- 14. Wall barrier stopping escape from East Germany
- 15. Trade Agreement reduced trade barriers between countries
- 16. Western alliance for collective defense
- 18. War indirect conflict through other countries