The Iron Curtain

2. Process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.
6. Wanted to create a line of communist-friendly countries between USSR and western Europe.
9. The forcible removal of a group of people from the territory they have occupied. Now called the ethnic cleansing.
11. 1948 supply of food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin.
12. International organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security.
14. Conservative ideology in which change is opposed and the traditional way of doing things is encouraged.
15. A U.S. program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe including food, jobs, political support.

1. A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb. Plans were stolen by Soviet Spies.
3. Winston Churchhill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S. dominated West.
4. Great Britain's prime minister after Churchill who set out to make modern British welfare state. He was involved in the Potstam Conference and represented Britain.
5. A diplomat and Soviet Specialist, who crafted the "containment doctrine."
7. Eastern European countries that came under the control of the Soviet Union after WWII; the Soviets argued that they had liberated these countries from the Nazis and thus they had a right to continue to influence developments there.
8. Policy designed to keep communism from expanding-gave economic aid to strengthen countries resisting USSR.
10. Soviet troops stopped all road and railroad traffic to West Berlin in hopes to force Americans would give up Berlin.
13. Tending toward an idea that society needs to support individuals that the group interests can only be met by society ensuring the safety and welfare of all individuals.