Across
- 2. Favoring relatives or friends in positions of power
- 4. People who oppose official government policies
- 7. Loss of faith or growing disappointment
- 9. Soviet leader who replaced Khrushchev in 1964
- 10. Long-range missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons across continents
- 11. Soviet policy used to suppress opposition in communist countries
- 12. Communist political ideology
- 15. A conflict fought indirectly through other nations or groups
- 16. A country's supply of nuclear weapons
- 18. A long period of little or no economic growth
- 20. Media nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative
Down
- 1. Dishonest or illegal behavior by people in authority
- 3. U.S. president who sought improved relations with the Soviet Union
- 5. Key word in Reagan's policy "Peace through Strength"
- 6. Complete destruction through nuclear war
- 7. Easing of tensions between rival nations
- 8. Reagan's proposed missile defense system
- 13. Competition between nations to build more powerful weapons
- 14. Soviet ballistic missile deployed in Eastern Europe
- 17. U.S. president who promoted "peace through strength"
- 19. Treaty that froze certain nuclear missiles
