Cold War Recap Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. Western policies intending to stop the growth of USSR territory and influence.
  2. 8. The name for the area created by merging the areas of Germany that had been controlled by the USA and the UK since the Yalta Conference.
  3. 9. George ________, an American general who gave his name to Aid and a Plan.
  4. 11. Conference in 1945 where President Truman told Stalin that the USA had tested an atomic bomb.
  5. 15. Josef ______, leader of the USSR from 1941-1953.
  6. 16. A speech given by Winston Churchill that warned of a Soviet barrier descending across Europe, separating east and west.
  7. 18. Part of the USA's policy of containment that promised aid to any country that was threatened by a Communist takeover.
  8. 20. Nikita __________, leader of the USSR after Stalin, who seemed to want peaceful coexistence with the western powers.
  9. 21. Communist Information Bureau, set up to ensure Soviet satellite states were run according to Stalin's wishes.
Down
  1. 1. Winston _________, British Prime Minister from 1940-1945.
  2. 2. Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, set up by the USSR in response to Marshall Aid
  3. 3. The USA's solution to the blockade imposed by Stalin in 1948 that stopped supplies reaching parts of Berlin that were controlled by Western powers.
  4. 4. Arguably, the Korean War was an example of this type of warfare, as an extension of the conflict between the USA and the USSR.
  5. 5. Conference in 1945 that saw the superpowers agree on the principle of 'spheres of influence.'
  6. 7. Conference in 1943 that saw an agreement that the United Nations would be established after the end of WW2, as well as Churchill's birthday!
  7. 10. Soviet policy to strengthen and grow the USSR.
  8. 12. The name for the area created by merging Bizonia with the area of Germany that had been controlled by France since the Yalta Conference.
  9. 13. Country experiencing civil war (1946-9 and, along with Turkey, the first recipient of anti-Communist aid from the USA.
  10. 14. Collective name for the USA, USSR and Great Britain, the world superpowers (3, 5)
  11. 17. Pact A Soviet alliance of countries in response to the establishment of NATO (the USSR saw the creation of NATO as an aggressive move by the west).
  12. 19. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, established in April 1949, when war between the USSR and USA seemed a real possibility.