Across
- 3. Former British Prime Minister who famously warned of Soviet expansionism in a 1946 US speech
- 6. Civil war here triggered US intervention and was used to justify a shift in US foreign aid strategy
- 9. Policy statement in 1947 pledging US support to countries resisting subjugation by armed minorities
- 11. Code name of the second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945
- 12. This tense 1945 summit highlighted growing mistrust between Stalin and the newly inaugurated Truman
- 16. Eastern European state where a 1948 coup d’état alarmed the West and helped pass the Marshall Plan
- 17. Leader who claimed Eastern European control was a necessary “buffer zone” against future invasions
- 19. Site of the 1945 conference where post-war Europe was discussed, and the USSR agreed to enter the war against Japan
- 20. Strategy articulated in the Long Telegram and adopted in US foreign policy to resist Soviet influence
Down
- 1. This leader's suspicion of Soviet intentions marked a sharp turn from Roosevelt’s diplomacy
- 2. Country where a manipulated coalition government led to full communist control by 1948
- 4. Divided city that became the first major flashpoint of the Cold War
- 5. 1943 meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin where the Allies agreed on launching a second front in Europe
- 7. Weapon whose secretive development and use by the US shocked the USSR and altered diplomacy
- 8. Metaphorical divide between capitalist West and communist East coined by Churchill
- 10. Soviet-led organisation formed in 1947 to tighten control over satellite states’ communist parties
- 13. US economic initiative offering billions to rebuild Europe — but rejected by Soviet bloc states
- 14. Soviet response to Western economic aid that aimed to integrate Eastern European economies under Moscow
- 15. Merging of these two zones of post-war Germany was a step towards the creation of a Western-aligned West Germany
- 18. US diplomat whose analysis of Soviet motivations became the basis of Cold War policy