Cold War Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: berlin wall : restored the rigidity of the iron curtain after it's construction in 1961, atomic warfare : a major threat throughout the cold war. mainly between the us and ussr, radio free europe : cia funded radio to provide uncensored news to listeners behind the iron curtain, cuban missile crisis : the soviets put missiles near the us in order to threaten them. they only took them out after america took theirs out of italy and turkey, iron curtain : area surrounding the western border of the soviet union. made up of countries taken over by the ussr, cold war : time during which several countries, including the united states, great britain, and the soviet union were on the brink of nuclear warfare, imperialism : the term for what the soviet union was trying to build by expanding westward, east berlin : soviet governed capitol. people often tried to flee to the west as it was not run by the ussr, churchill : former prime minister of britain. condemned the soviet union's policies, red scare : the spread of communism through europe among other parts of the world. caused by the ussr attempting to create a communist empire, defcon 2 : the nearest the united states has ever gotten to full blown nuclear war. occurred in 1962, hungary : first country to open their borders to the west, and leading cause of the collapse of the iron curtain, collapse : the end of the iron curtain. started by the opening of western borders, and helped by the collapse of the berlin wall, truman : president of the united states during much of the cold war, stalin : leader of the soviet union until 1953.