The Iron Curtain

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Across
  1. 5. After WW2, Russia wanted a large territorial ______ against Germany
  2. 9. The ideological and political divide between the Soviet block of Eastern Europe and the future NATO countries was known as the _____________
  3. 10. During WW2, the U.S. and Soviet Union became _______ as a result of the notion "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
  4. 12. After their victory, the Allies were considering an invasion of the Soviet Union in a plan they called ________________________
  5. 13. A meeting held in February 1945 to establish the post war political structure of Europe and, in the end, only solidified the Cold War rivalry between the U.S. and USSR
  6. 14. in 1946, this man gave a speech in which he said "From Stetting in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an 'iron curtain' has descended across the continent"
Down
  1. 1. _______________ claimed the Iron Curtain Speech as "war mongering"
  2. 2. By 1988, __________ began to open up the physical Iron Curtain
  3. 3. Tension grew between Russia and the Western Allies not after WW2, but after the _______________________
  4. 4. Less than a year after the end of ww2, battle lines of the __________ were being drawn
  5. 5. The Iron Curtain's complete collapse came after the opening of the _____________
  6. 6. Although it started out figuratively, the Iron Curtain became a physically guarded ________ that millions could not cross
  7. 7. As Allied victory became imminent, both sides began to _______ each other of various actions to weaken the other forces
  8. 8. In the Iron Curtain Speech, America and _______________ were described as having a "special relationship" and Soviet policies were further warned against
  9. 11. After WW2, the Western Allies wanted a ________ market economy