The End of the Cold War

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Across
  1. 2. Ideological model Khrushchev claimed to restore when criticizing Stalin’s abuses
  2. 3. City where the playwright, Vaclav Havel, lived and wrote
  3. 5. Policy shift launched by a secret speech condemning Stalin’s cult of personality
  4. 7. Role Vaclav Havel played in peaceful movements that helped end communism
  5. 8. U.S. president who negotiated Germany’s division at the 1945 Allied conference
  6. 10. Postwar agreement of denazification, demilitarization, democratization, decartelization, and decentralization
  7. 14. Leader who attempted to pressure the West by cutting access to Berlin in 1948
  8. 15. Economic shift he initiated to modernize the USSR
  9. 17. Berlin suburb where Allied leaders met in July–August 1945 to shape postwar Germany
  10. 18. Outcome of the changes in the Soviet bloc that ended the Cold War era
  11. 20. Goal of the U.S. initiative that revived Western Europe’s industries after WWII
  12. 22. Party led by the West German statesman who reshaped Eastern relations in the 1960s and 1970s
  13. 23. Polish dockworker who led the first independent Soviet‑bloc union
  14. 27. Gesture in Poland that symbolized German contrition
  15. 28. Form of Vaclav Havel’s 1979 critique of compliance under Soviet‑style rule
  16. 29. Year East Germany and West Germany became one nation again
  17. 30. Cold War reality accepted when West Germany acknowledged the existence of two German states
  18. 31. Industry revived by the 1948–1951 U.S. aid program in Western Europe
  19. 32. Year East Germany erected a barrier dividing Berlin during the Cold War
Down
  1. 1. Office Gorbachev held while steering the Soviet Union toward change
  2. 4. Goal achieved when East Germany and West Germany became one country
  3. 6. Material that replaced barbed wire to fortify the barrier around West Berlin
  4. 9. Secretary of State who proposed a 1948 U.S. aid program for Europe’s recovery
  5. 11. BERLIN Cold War city sector targeted by the Soviet blockade to force Allied withdrawal
  6. 12. Symbolic meaning of the barrier separating East and West until 1989
  7. 13. Western response supplying West Berlin during Stalin’s 1948–49 blockade
  8. 16. Year Khrushchev secretly denounced Stalin to Soviet Party leaders
  9. 19. Freedom expanded under Gorbachev’s reforms in the Soviet Union
  10. 21. Cold War easing strategy that recognized East Germany as a separate nation
  11. 22. Independent labor union formed in Soviet‑bloc Poland
  12. 24. architect of West Germany’s New Ostpolitik
  13. 25. Free political act the Polish labor union helped achieve in 1989
  14. 26. Agreements that expanded West German commercial ties with Soviet‑bloc states