Iron Curtain
Across
- 2. American initiative to aid Western Europe’s recovery post-WWII.
- 6. Soviet Union's main security agency during the Cold War.
- 8. British leader who popularized the term "Iron Curtain".
- 11. Communist countries behind the Iron Curtain.
- 12. Soviet leader during the early Cold War and Iron Curtain's rise.
- 13. U.S. foreign policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism.
- 14. Western military alliance formed in response to Soviet threats.
Down
- 1. U.S. policy providing aid to countries resisting communism.
- 3. Period of geopolitical tension after WWII between the US and USSR.
- 4. Soviet response to NATO; a military alliance of Eastern Bloc nations.
- 5. 1945 conference where post-war Europe was divided among Allies.
- 7. German city symbolically and physically divided during the Cold War.
- 9. Soviet satellite state that revolted in 1956.
- 10. Central European country that underwent a communist coup in 1948.