Iron Curtain

4. man who theorized communism
6. group of communist countries that existed in Europe and Asia from 1922 to 1991
7. International organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security
10. A U.S. program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe including food, jobs, political support
11. Soviet troops stopped all road and railroad traffic to West Berlin in hopes to force Americans would give up Berlin
12. barrier made by the soviet union to divide Europe after World War II
15. Man who Wanted to create a line of communist-friendly countries between USSR and western Europe

1. political ideal that has property owned by a public government and shared equally amongst citizens
2. policy in the United States that tried to stop the spread of communism by isolating Soviet Union countries
3. Eastern European countries that came under the control of the Soviet Union after WWII
5. a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
8. wall dividing east and west Berlin
9. economic and political system with private owned companies without government intervention
13. the country that formed the iron curtain
14. Russia was playing checkers while the United States were playing __________