Cold War

3. Nations with the most political and economical influence (post WW2)
7. Industrial system in which businesses are privately owned
9. Government which built off of and implemented the system of Communism
10. Churchill’s coined term for division of the democratic West and the Soviet-controlled Eastern-European nations
13. Pacifying an aggressive nation by compliance to prevent war
14. Generous donations from the US to nations in need of economic and financial support
17. Allied powers which opposed the spread of Communist control in the East
18. US’s system of government
19. Formed to protect Soviet States from Western Aggression
21. Stalin’s attempt to force Allied Western control out of Berlin

1. Areas of land/nations which were directly and strongly affected by communist control
2. Policy of containment issued by the United States
4. Powerful nation allied with Britain and the US during WW2, which possessed a Communist Government
5. US’s Response to the Berlin Blockade
6. USSR’s system of government
8. Conference following the one at Yalta
11. weakened due to ideological differences between US and USSR
12. developed during arms race
15. international alliance which united Western European states against a Communist Threat
16. foreign policy of the U.S. Until post WW2
20. Supported the Truman Doctrine by providing economic assistance to nations in post-war Europe