Iron Curtain Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. A conflict that was between the US and the USSR.
  2. 8. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
  3. 9. a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe
  4. 10. A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
  5. 12. major power of the Western democracies and a key player in the Cold War, opposing the USSR and its communist allies
  6. 14. Defensive alliance established by Britain, France, and the US in 1949 with Canada and other Western European allies
  7. 15. Leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2-leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School
Down
  1. 2. an alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations (a response to NATO)
  2. 3. post WWII political and ideological barrier erected by the USSR to separate itself and its satellite states in Easter Europe from the West and other non-communist countries
  3. 4. Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
  4. 5. Biased information using facts, arguments, half-truths, to influence public opinions and to promote a particular idea or agenda
  5. 6. 1948 supply of food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
  6. 7. political ideology and system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, characterized by a strong central government, state of economy, and highly authorized rule.
  7. 11. Leader of the Communist Party in China in 1949
  8. 13. represented the profound political and ideological division that emerged after WWII, based between the Western democracies (US) and the Communist Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union)