Key People of The Cold War

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Across
  1. 3. Communist leader of Czechoslovakia from 1948 until his death in 1953.
  2. 5. Who was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008?
  3. 6. Five-star American general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II.
  4. 9. He was a controversial person, with people having strong and different views about his leadership.
  5. 11. He was prepared to negotiate directly with Stalin during WW2 and was keen for this cooperation.
  6. 12. He rose to power in the 1920s after leading the Communist Party and was in power in Berlin for 25 years as a dictator.
  7. 14. The US Secretary of State from 1947-49. Responsible for the Marshall Aid programme of the financial aid for Europe.
  8. 16. The nationalist, Communist leader of the Viet Minh movement.
  9. 19. Who rose to national fame as a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s?
  10. 20. Who advocated extensive use of Covert Operations?
Down
  1. 1. Who was the head of the Soviet Communist Party and leader of the USSR from 1958 until the early 1960s?
  2. 2. Who seized the British-controlled Suez Canal in 1956?
  3. 4. This man voiced apprehensions surrounding the Cold War and popularised the term 'Iron Curtain'.
  4. 7. This woman was Britain's first female prime minister and served three consecutive terms in office.
  5. 8. Who was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union?
  6. 10. Who set out to expand social welfare spending with his New Frontier program?
  7. 12. Who capitalized on Cold War fears of Communism in the early 1950s by accusing hundreds of government employees of being Communists and Soviet agents?
  8. 13. Who became president upon Roosevelt’s death in April 1945 and successfully carried out the remainder of World War II?
  9. 15. Who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989?
  10. 17. Who helped devise Eisenhower’s New Look foreign policy?
  11. 18. Prime Minister of Britain from 1945-51 and leader of the Labour Party. He had been deputy to Churchill during wartime.