Iron Curtain Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. Churchill- former prime minister that led Britain to victory in the Second World War.
  2. 4. an economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally-owned, instead of by individuals
  3. 5. States- In July 1944, which country invited 44 countries to an international conference in Bretton Woods where the economic post-war future of the war was to be decided? Two organizations were established, which were the world bank and the international monetary fund.
  4. 7. On May 23rd 1949, the _________ Republic of Germany was established
  5. 9. It was a conference in addition to settling matters related to Germany and Poland, where negotiators approved the formation of a Council of Foreign Ministers that would act on behalf of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China to draft peace treaties with Germany's former allies.
  6. 13. In 1947, Bizonia was created as a combination and economic unification of the British and American zones, and a new currency was introduced for the Western zones to boost the economy there.
  7. 14. The year the iron curtain had finally fallen.
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  1. 1. Curtain - distinguished the East (Soviet Union) from the West (United States) and represents the ideological separation between the two. It is had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century.
  2. 2. What state was the Iron Curtain speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in?
  3. 4. it was the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies.
  4. 6. Doctrine- By 1947, an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
  5. 8. The founding of the German _________ Republic followed on October 7. 1949.
  6. 10. Plan- It was also known as the European Recovery Program, which was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.
  7. 11. Stalin- the reason why the USA and Britain changed their heart from preferring a stable and strong Germany to wanting to make them weaker and not a threat to Russia or other nations (democracy meets dictatorship)
  8. 12. at the 1945 conference of Yalta and Potsdam, one nation was divided into four zones to prevent it from regaining power or starting another war