The Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• deterrence : military strategy to prevent enemy attack by threatening devastating retaliation, central to cold war nuclear policy
• macarthur : controversial us general who commanded un forces in korea; dismissed in 1951 after demanding atomic strikes on china
• nagy : hungarian leader during the 1956 uprising.
• eisenhower : us president from 1953 to 1961, who hosted khrushchev at camp david in 1959, seeking to thaw cold war tensions
• sputnik : soviet satellite launched in 1957 that triggered the space race and us panic over missile capabilities
• turkey : country hosting us jupiter missiles removed secretly in 1963 as part of the cuban missile crisis deal
• castro : cuban leader who seized power in the 1959 revolution.
• ultimatum : final demand delivered by khrushchev in 1958 and again in 1961, threatening western powers to leave berlin within six months – sparking major crisis
• brain drain : loss of professionals and intellectuals from east germany, a key reason for the construction of the berlin wall
• dubcek : czech leader whose 'prague spring' reforms ended with the 1968 warsaw pact invasion
• quarantine : term used by kennedy for the naval 'blockade' of cuba in october 1962 to avoid declaring war; stopped soviet missile shipments
• paris : city where the 1960 summit collapsed after khrushchev walked out over the u2 spy plane incident
• hotline : direct communication system established in 1963 between us and soviet leaders after the cuban missile crisis
• bay of pigs : site of failed 1961 cia-backed invasion of cuba by anti-castro exiles, authorized by kennedy
• tito : yugoslav leader whose visit to prague in july 1968 drew massive crowds, alarming moscow and fueling soviet fears of czech independence from the warsaw pact
• vienna : location of kennedy and khrushchev's tense june 1961 summit that exposed us-soviet friction over berlin
• warsawpact : military alliance formed by ussr and eastern bloc nations in 1955 to counter nato
• korea : divided asian nation where a cold war proxy conflict raged from 1950 to 1953
• brezhnev : soviet leader who formalized a doctrine justifying invasions of 'deviant' socialist states, starting with czechoslovakia
• icbm : long-range weapons capable of delivering nuclear warheads