Cold war(Iron Curtain)

2. An alliance formed among the Soviet Union and its Satellite states in response to the formation of NATO.
5. A U.s. foreign policy introduced by president Truman providing economic and military aid to countries resisting communist aggression
12. U.S. policy during the Cold War aimed at preventing the spread of communism, by containing the soviet influence and expansion.
14. The European Recovery Program initiated by the U.S. providing economic aid to western European countries to help rebuild their economies after WW2.
15. A soviet attempt to block Western access to West Berlin leading to the Berlin Airlift to supply the city.
16. The group of democratic and capitalist states in Western Europe and other regions that opposed communism.

1. A heavily guarded area between the two walls of the Berlin wall to prevent escape from East to West Germany.
3. A leader of the Allied forces who popularized the term "Iron Curtain" making it a household term used for the division that was happening in Europe.
4. The group of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe.
6. The process of establishing or expanding democratic practices and principles within a country.
7. A military alliance among the Western countries and European nations to counter the perceived Soviet Union threat during the Cold war.
8. A physical barrier constructed to separate Eastern and Western Berlin.
9. A U.S. funded broadcasting organization that provided news and information to countries in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during the Cold war, countering communist propaganda.
10. A political metaphor used to describe the political boundaries separating Europe into two separate parts in the aftermath of WW2.
11. A hypothetical plan Developed by the British and American military planners to consider a conflict with the Soviet Union after WW2.
13. A meeting in 1945 with the leaders of the Soviet Union, United States and United Kingdom to discuss the reorganizing of post war Germany and Europe.