The Cold War Begins

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Across
  1. 3. the Soviet Union and its satellite states formed a rival military alliance; included all Communist states in Eastern Europe except Yugoslavia
  2. 4. Name for the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas (Democratic and Dictatorship) from the end of WWII in 1945 to the end of the Cold War in 1991
  3. 5. Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill
  4. 7. became a member of NATO in 1955
  5. 9. provided the military alliance to counter Soviet Expansion
  6. 11. US and Britain drop supplies to West Berlin
  7. 14. program provides food to reduce famine, fuel to heat houses and factories, money to jumpstart the economy
  8. 15. the different areas of Germany controlled by the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
Down
  1. 1. communist party makes all key economic, political, and military decisions; Soviet people cannot worship as they please; no private property
  2. 2. free elections, economic and religious freedom, private property, individual differences
  3. 6. promise to aid nations struggling against communist movements
  4. 8. countries formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence
  5. 10. 46 year struggled between two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with no military conflict
  6. 12. American diplomat and leading authority on the Soviet Union
  7. 13. goal was to keep communism contained within its existing borders