Iron Curtain Crossword

6. – Term coined by Winston Churchill to describe the division between communist Eastern Europe and the West.
7. – Military alliance formed in 1949 as a collective defense against Soviet expansion.
8. – Country in Central Europe that was behind the Iron Curtain, with Prague as its capital.
9. – Famous crossing point between East and West Berlin during the Cold War.
11. – The secret police of East Germany, known for their surveillance of the population.
13. – Economic and political system that dominated Eastern Bloc countries behind the Iron Curtain.
14. – The first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, marking the start of the space race.

1. – 1956 uprising against Soviet control in Hungary, brutally suppressed by Soviet forces.
2. – Capital of the Soviet Union, the heart of the communist world during the Cold War.
3. – Treaty that established a military alliance between the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations.
4. – Barrier that physically and ideologically divided East and West Germany.
5. – Soviet leader who succeeded Stalin and was in power during the height of the Cold War.
9. – A period of political tension and military rivalry between the USA and USSR after World War II.
10. – Capital of East Germany, controlled by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
12. – Soviet policy of openness and transparency, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s.