The Iron Curtain Crossword Puzzle
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- 3. Churchill- former prime minister that led Britain to victory in the Second World War.
- 4. an economic ideology that advocates for a classless society in which all property and wealth are communally-owned, instead of by individuals
- 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.
- 7. On May 23rd 1949, the _________ Republic of Germany was established
- 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.
- 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.
- 14. The year the iron curtain had finally fallen.
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- 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. What state was the Iron Curtain speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in?
- 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.
- 6. Doctrine- By 1947, an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War
- 8. The founding of the German _________ Republic followed on October 7. 1949.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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