Cold War and Contemporary Europe
Across
- 6. The goal of many of Europe’s colonies following the world wars; India achieved this in 1947
- 7. This form of government was embraced by the Soviet Union and China, but eventually they had to adapt certain capitalist policies
- 9. This was spurred in Europe by violence and hardship in the Middle East and was one of the leading factors behind Brexit
- 10. The first female British prime minister, she instituted many conservative reforms in the British government and was a target of anger for the Irish Republican Army
- 11. This international organization was the successor to the British Empire
- 14. This region of Spain and France was isolated from the rest of Europe for a long time and experienced some unrest against Spanish rule in the 20th century
- 15. This was a brief period of mass protests and political liberalization in 1968 in Czechoslovakia that was brutally repressed by the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev
- 17. A defensive alliance between the US and its allies after World War II; several former Soviet-bloc countries such as Romania and Lithuania joined in 2004
- 18. This explosion in population occurred following the Second World War; its aging members are posing problems to the different welfare states worldwide
- 20. Following World War 2, there were two of these types of nations on earth, each possessing the power to exert influence all over the world
- 21. This leader of the Soviet Union instituted Destalinization and was in charge during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- 23. A 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind; Salvador Dali was a famous artist in this movement
- 24. A protracted war in this country is often described as one of the causes of the fall of the Soviet Union
- 25. Literally meaning “openness,” this Russian term was a new policy of openness and transparency regarding the government of the Soviet Union
- 27. The Soviet Union used a series of these multi-year plans to achieve rapid industrialization
- 29. The leader of the Soviet Union following the death of Vladimir Lenin, he was infamous for sending dissidents to gulags in Siberia
- 30. This American initiative provided massive amounts of foreign aid to Western Europe; the cooperation between nations in how to implement it was a step towards the European Union
- 31. A defensive alliance between the Soviet Union and its allies after World War II; it was eventually replaced by the Collective Security Treaty
- 32. Russia fought a series of wars in this region against separatists and Islamist fighters in this region in the late 1990s and early 2000s
Down
- 1. He was the final leader of the Soviet Union; before this he attempted to institute policies of glasnost and perestroika to modernize the governance of his nation
- 2. The leader of the UK in World War II, he eventually lost election after the war following the war as the left-leaning Labour Party came to power
- 3. This meeting was held near the end of World War II; Allied leaders decided at this point how to administer Germany and other issues surrounding the postwar order
- 4. This was a period of tension between the US and the Soviet Union that always held the threat of nuclear war
- 5. Balkan country came into existence in 1918’ when it dissolved in the 1990s, violence erupted between its ethnic groups;
- 8. An organization created after World War II to integrate the coal and steel industries of different European nations
- 11. This was the understated name of the conflict between Irish Nationalists and the UK government between the 1960s and 90s that to multiple acts of violence
- 12. The foundational treaty of the European Union, it created three “pillars” for cooperation
- 13. The current government of France that replaced the old parliamentary republic with a semi-presidential system
- 16. Founded by the Maastricht Treaty, this is a political union of many nations on the European continent
- 19. A movement that seeks to advance the status of women worldwide; it expanded into movements for better treatment of LGBT people and people with disabilities
- 22. This barrier divided the capital of Germany in the twentieth century; its fall was one of the defining moments of the end of the Cold War
- 26. The US and the Soviet Union fought a series of these in Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere instead of fighting each other directly
- 28. Literally meaning “reconstruction,” this Russian term was a movement of political reform in the later days of the Soviet Union