The Iron Curtain

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Across
  1. 2. Country where the Iron Curtain speech was delivered.
  2. 4. Military alliance formed by Western nations in 1949.
  3. 6. Wall built in 1961 to divide East and West Berlin.
  4. 8. U.S. president associated with the Truman Doctrine.
  5. 9. Communist military alliance created in response to NATO.
  6. 12. Economic recovery plan created by the United States after World War II.
  7. 15. Barrier separating communist Eastern Europe from Western Europe.
  8. 16. Country physically divided into East and West after World War II.
Down
  1. 1. U.S. policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism.
  2. 3. Soviet leader during the early Cold War years.
  3. 5. The conflict between communist and capitalist powers after World War II.
  4. 7. Czech reform movement ended by Soviet invasion in 1968.
  5. 10. Political and economic system promoted by the Soviet Union.
  6. 11. Churchill The British leader who popularized the term “Iron Curtain.”
  7. 13. Eastern European country crushed by Soviet forces in 1956.
  8. 14. Divided German city symbolizing Cold War tensions.