Across
- 2. a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic
- 6. met in Potsdam, Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II
- 9. proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe
- 10. a collected defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
- 11. a line separating two political or geographical areas
- 12. Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953 held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- 14. a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War
- 15. provided listeners behind the Curtain in the EasternBloc with uncensored news
Down
- 1. a Soviet politician and ideologue. He has been described as the Soviet Union's "propagandist-in-chief"
- 3. put up the Iron Curtain
- 4. an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American
- 5. a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
- 7. the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, as named by the Western Allies
- 8. a political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas
- 13. a global conflict between two major alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.