The Iron Curtain

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Across
  1. 4. Economic program designed to rebuild Western Europe after WWII
  2. 5. British leader who popularized the term “Iron Curtain”
  3. 8. Soviet leader during the early Cold War
  4. 10. Strategy to prevent the spread of communism
  5. 12. Policy announced in 1947 promising U.S. support to nations resisting communism
  6. 13. Military alliance formed by Western nations in 1949
  7. 15. Country divided into East and West after World War II
  8. 16. Military alliance created by the Soviet Union
Down
  1. 1. Eastern European country where Soviet influence was especially strong
  2. 2. Symbolic border separating communist and democratic Europ
  3. 3. Ideology promoted by the Soviet Union
  4. 6. Eastern European nation invaded by the USSR in 1956
  5. 7. War Period of tension between the U.S. and USSR
  6. 9. U.S. president who announced aid to nations resisting communism
  7. 11. Conference where Allied leaders discussed postwar Europe
  8. 14. Divided German capital, symbolized Cold War tensions