Iron Curtain

4. U.S. initiative to aid Western Europe post-WWII, seen as anti-communist
7. Cold War strategy to contain communism
8. British leader who popularized the term “Iron Curtain” in a 1946 speech
10. Soviet leader during the height of the Cold War (e.g., Cuban Missile Crisis)
12. City split into East and West, symbol of the Cold War divide
15. Barrier separating Soviet-controlled countries from West
16. Western European military alliance founded in 1949

1. The ideology associated with the Soviet Union during the Cold War
2. Organization formed in 1955 as the Eastern Bloc’s military alliance
3. Country divided by the Iron Curtain and later reunified in 1990
5. Soviet leader who introduced glasnost and perestroika
6. Crisis in 1962 that brought the world close to nuclear war
9. Symbolic and physical wall built in 1961, later torn down in 1989
11. Eastern European country that revolted against Soviet control in 1956
13. First Eastern European country to break away from Soviet influence, 1989
14. City where the famous “Iron Curtain” speech was delivered