the iron curtian
Across
- 3. that promised US support to countries fighting against communism (7 letters) – Truman
- 5. where Churchill gave his Iron Curtain speech (6 letters) – Fulton
- 6. of countries led by the Soviet Union that joined a military alliance in 1955 (7 letters) – Warsaw
- 9. built in 1961 that became a symbol of division (11 letters) – BerlinWall
- 10. where people tried to fight back against Soviet control in 1956 (8 letters) – Hungary
- 11. policy that tried to stop the spread of communism (10 letters) – Containment
- 13. where people protested for democracy in 1968 (11 letters) – Czechoslovakia
- 14. city that was split between East and West during the Cold War (6 letters) – Berlin
Down
- 1. where the Berlin Wall was built (7 letters) – Germany
- 2. moment in 1962 when the US and USSR almost went to war over nuclear weapons in Cuba (6, 8 letters) – CubanMissile
- 4. alliance formed by the US and other Western countries in 1949 (4 letters) – NATO
- 7. who came up with the term "Iron Curtain" in a 1946 speech (9 letters) – Churchill
- 8. leader during WWII who warned about the Iron Curtain (9 letters) – Churchill
- 10. where the Velvet Revolution ended communist rule in 1989 (10 letters) – Slovakia
- 12. leader who brought changes to the Soviet Union with ideas like glasnost and perestroika (8 letters) – Gorbachev