Across
- 1. A conflict that was between the US and the USSR.
- 8. American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world
- 9. a United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe
- 10. A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region
- 12. major power of the Western democracies and a key player in the Cold War, opposing the USSR and its communist allies
- 14. Defensive alliance established by Britain, France, and the US in 1949 with Canada and other Western European allies
- 15. Leader of the Allied forces in Europe during WW2-leader of troops in Africa and commander in DDay invasion-elected president-president during integration of Little Rock Central High School
Down
- 2. an alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations (a response to NATO)
- 3. post WWII political and ideological barrier erected by the USSR to separate itself and its satellite states in Easter Europe from the West and other non-communist countries
- 4. Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control
- 5. Biased information using facts, arguments, half-truths, to influence public opinions and to promote a particular idea or agenda
- 6. 1948 supply of food and fuel to citizens of West Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin
- 7. political ideology and system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, characterized by a strong central government, state of economy, and highly authorized rule.
- 11. Leader of the Communist Party in China in 1949
- 13. represented the profound political and ideological division that emerged after WWII, based between the Western democracies (US) and the Communist Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union)