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Across 2. Militia units formed by students in response to Mao's call for cultural and social revolution; the enforcers 8. Mao Zedong's program to cleanse China of anti-revolutionary influences and get rid of the four "olds": old customs, old habits, old ideas, old culture 10. 1955; Eastern bloc nations form a military alliance to counter NATO 11. Competition between the US and the USSR and their achievements in space exploration 13. Practice of threatening the enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression 16. Last of the "old revolutionaries" in China who is known for his capitalist ideas and market reforms after Mao's death 19. 13 days in October, 1962 when the USSR had missiles in Cuba pointed at the US; closest the world ever came to nuclear war 21. Communist leader who gained control of North China after its split, 1949, ruled with his "Red Army" 24. US commitment to defend the Middle East against attack by any communist country, 1957 26. 1945 meeting between the Big 3 to discuss reorganization of Europe and Germany, specifically, after WWII; divide Germany into 4 zone 27. This US president made an historic trip to China in 1972 and met with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai 28. In the US, 2nd Red Scare, attacks by US Senator Joseph McCarthy and others on suspicion of Communist ties in the early 1950s 29. American pilot shot down in his U-2 spy plane, captured by the Soviets, convicted; May 1, 1960 30. Failed CIA operation to overthrow the Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro, 1961 31. US massive economic aid package to western European countries devastated by WWII; designed to lessen appeal of communism 32. "Hot wars" or confrontations in which the superpowers use other countries as substitutes rather than fighting each other directly; Korean War, Vietnam War 33. 1957; first artificial satellite launched into space, sent by the Soviets 34. Communist leader of Cuba who came to power after ousting Batista in 1959

Down 1. 324 day-operation in which the US and RAF flew food and supplies into West Berlin after the Soviet blockade of the city, 1948 3. Term to describe the ideological conflict between the US and the USSR post-WWII 4. Man who stood in front of a row of Chinese tanks in 1989 the morning after Chinese military suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests by force 5. The idea that the superpowers had so many nuclear weapons that they would completely each other in a war 6. Over 100,000 Chinese students protest for democracy in the heart of Beijing, 1989 7. Communist leader of Vietnam during Vietnam War 9. Relaxing/easing of Cold War tensions; 1970s 12. International organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security and cooperation 14. US policy to stop the spread of communism; contain communism in areas already under Soviet control 15. Term coined by Winston Churchill; imaginary line dividing East (Communists) and West (democratic nations backed by the US) 17. The idea that if one Southeast Asian nation fell to communism, the rest would fall 18. Deng Xiaoping's plan to help China progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science/technology 20. Mao Zedong and the CCP's effort to transform China into an industrialized society, quickly, similar to Stalin's 5 Year Plan 22. A book of statements, quotes, and speeches from Mao Zedong that was distributed during the Cultural Revolution 23. Built in 1961 to keep East Germans from fleeing to Western sector of Berlin 25. Leader of the Nationalist forces in China that was defeated by the Communists during China's Civil War (name is also spelled Chiang Kai-shek)