Chapter 18 vocabulary

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Strength or the ability to control things (plural) (6)
  2. 6. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state (6)
  3. 7. An organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security (13)
  4. 9. A nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic (8)
  5. 10. Elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term (6)

Down

  1. 2. Any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star (9)
  2. 3. An impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship (11)
  3. 4. A policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power (11)
  4. 5. Capital of Germany located in eastern Germany (6)
  5. 8. A state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by (7)