The Iron Curtain Crossword

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  1. 2. Soviet leader whose policies contributed to the end of the Iron Curtain. Last Soviet leader, under whose rule the Iron Curtain began to dissolve.
  2. 4. Military alliance of Eastern Bloc countries. Alliance formed in 1955 by countries on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain.
  3. 5. British leader who coined the term "Iron Curtain" in his 1946 speech. Prime Minister who first used the term "Iron Curtain" in a speech at Fulton.
  4. 8. Soviet security agency active in maintaining the Iron Curtain's integrity. Soviet secret police that operated extensively along the Iron Curtain.
  5. 10. U.S. policy aimed at containing communism, influencing countries along the Iron Curtain. 1947 U.S. foreign policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism near the Iron Curtain.
  6. 12. 1975 agreement that included countries from both sides of the Iron Curtain. 1975 agreement that marked a rare cooperation between countries divided by the Iron Curtain.
  7. 14. Capital where a significant uprising against Iron Curtain policies occurred in 1956. City that saw a major anti-communist uprising in 1956 within the Iron Curtain.
  8. 15. Polish trade union that challenged communist rule behind the Iron Curtain. Movement led by Lech Wałęsa that defied communist rule within the Iron Curtain.
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  1. 1. Metaphorical barrier separating Soviet-controlled Europe and the West. Metaphorical divide mentioned by Churchill between communist East and capitalist West.
  2. 3. U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe, impacting countries outside the Iron Curtain. Economic aid program by the U.S. for Western Europe, countering the influence of the Iron Curtain.
  3. 6. A nation behind the Iron Curtain that underwent a political revolution in 1989. Eastern European country behind the Iron Curtain that experienced the Velvet Revolution.
  4. 7. A brief period of reform in Czechoslovakia crushed by the Iron Curtain's enforcers. 1968 event in Czechoslovakia, abruptly ended by forces loyal to the Iron Curtain.
  5. 9. Physical manifestation of the Iron Curtain, erected in 1961. Barrier that became a literal representation of the Iron Curtain in 1961.
  6. 11. Western military alliance formed in response to the threat posed by the Iron Curtain. Alliance founded in 1949 as a countermeasure to the potential threat from the Iron Curtain.
  7. 13. Soviet leader during the initial years of the Iron Curtain's existence. Soviet leader at the time of the Iron Curtain's emergence post-WWII.