The Cold War Begins

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