The Iron curtain

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Across
  1. 1. WAR Cold War period marked by high tensions but no direct superpower war
  2. 3. U.S. president who declared Tear down this wall!
  3. 5. Soviet leader during the early Iron Curtain era
  4. 6. Soviet policy of controlling satellite states through strict oversight
  5. 7. CURTAIN Churchill delivered this famous 1946 speech in Missouri
  6. 10. City where an airlift in 1948 demonstrated Western resistance to Soviet blocka
  7. 13. AIRLIFT 1948–49 Western effort to supply a blockaded city by air
Down
  1. 1. U.S. intelligence agency during the Cold War
  2. 2. Country split into two ideological halves after World War II
  3. 4. Leader of the USSR at the early height of the Iron Curtain era
  4. 5. Eastern bloc security agency known for surveillance and repression
  5. 8. Eastern European nation where Solidarity sparked resistance to Soviet rule
  6. 9. REVOLT Short-lived 1956 uprising against Soviet control in Eastern Europe
  7. 11. Divided city that became a symbol of Cold War tension
  8. 12. PACT PACT soviet-led military alliance formed in 1955