The Iron Curtain

3. A state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.
5. A place that was part of the cold war.
6. To keep someone in one place.
8. An alliance during the cold war.
11. A serious disagreement or argument.
13. An economic system based on private ownership.
15. A Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and North Sea beaches.
16. A term used by Winston Churchill in a speech to describe the growing divide between western democracies and Soviet-influenced states.

1. A softening or easing of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
2. purposefully escalated a dangerous situation.
4. An economic system based on government ownership and control of resources.
7. The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country or region.
9. A country that was apart of the cold war.
10. The elected head of the republic.
12. The president that was in office during the atomic bomb.
14. The struggle for power between the Soviet Union and the United States.