Iron Curtain

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  1. 5. A military alliance for all the Western states.
  2. 6. A form of government that the Soviet Union tried to put on the occupied territory they were in following WWII. A system of common ownership that distributes everything based on needs.
  3. 7. A former British general who gave the famous Iron Curtain speech which lengthened the British and American Alliance helping them win the Cold War.
  4. 8. The Soviet Union leader at the time
  5. 9. A war between the Soviets and France, Britain, and America that was over the Soviets wanting to use Communism on the states they occupied after WWII and the rest saying thats not what we agreed on. The Iron Curtain was the division between the two sides in this war.
  6. 10. A plan for America to send economic aid and help with post war economic infrastructure. It exposed the division between the East and West leading to the Iron Curtain.
  7. 11. A Soviet Foreign policy that stated a socialist rule threat to own state in the Eastern Bloc was a threat to all of them and justified Czechoslovakia occupation.
  8. 13. The name of Winston Churchills very famous speech in America where the term Iron Curtain was first introduced. It offered a blueprint for Westerners to win the war.
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  1. 1. The country that placed the Iron Curtain and wanted to separate their new countries they occupied after WWII from the democratic form of government in the West.
  2. 2. A document where the US will help anyone threatened by Soviet Union. It was influenced by the Iron Curtain and put in place after it.
  3. 3. group of eastern European countries that were aligned militarily, politically, economically, and culturally with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
  4. 4. An imaginary boundary placed to separate Europe after WWII because the Soviets and the western states who occupied invaded European states after the war had different ideas on how to run the governments in the states they occupied.
  5. 12. A physical part of the curtain separating Germany's capital.
  6. 14. The first place where the boundary was removed and broken.
  7. 15. A defense treaty among Soviet states in the Eastern part of Europe.