Across
- 2. In which South-East Asian country was the USA involved from 1955 to 1975?
- 5. Which US President set up a blockade of ships around Cuba?
- 6. Which defensive alliance was established in 1949?
- 8. Churchill described Soviet control of Eastern Europe as an 'iron...'
- 11. Which country did the UN send troops to in 1950?
- 12. The ??? Plan gave $13bn of American money to Western European countries
- 13. A war where two sides do not fight directly, but instead each support a smaller country in another conflict
- 14. America and Britain responded to the Berlin Blockade in 1948 with an...
- 16. Which communist country joined in the Korean War?
- 17. The USA was worried about the '??? effect' of allowing one country to become communist
- 19. Who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008?
- 20. Which country did the USA drop two atomic bombs on in 1945?
Down
- 1. After WW2, an international peacekeeping organisation called the '??? Nations' was set up
- 3. After WW2, the USA decided that it needed to ??? the spread of communism
- 4. Over which Caribbean island did the world almost end in 1962?
- 6. What type of weapon did US General MacArthur want to use in the Korean War?
- 7. The Viet Cong used this type of warfare against US troops
- 9. Which country was divided into four zones after WW2?
- 10. Which political and economic system did the Soviet Union use?
- 13. The '38th ???' roughly marks the division of Korea into North and South
- 15. Which US President called the atom bomb 'the greatest thing in history'?
- 18. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1928-53?