Across
- 2. Western operation supplying West Berlin during the blockade
- 4. Western economic system criticised by the USSR
- 5. International organisation intended to promote peace after WWII
- 7. Conflict where the US intervened to stop communist expansion
- 8. US Secretary of State who proposed massive economic aid to Europe
- 10. 1945 meeting where tensions grew over Germany’s future
- 11. US report describing Soviet intentions as expansionist
- 13. US diplomat who developed the idea of containment
- 16. British leader who warned of an “Iron Curtain” dividing Europe
- 18. Western military alliance formed in 1949
- 19. Soviet political and economic ideology opposed by the West
- 21. Soviet organisation created to tighten control over Eastern Europe
- 22. Area of Eastern European states used by the USSR for security
- 23. Soviet‑led military alliance formed in 1955
Down
- 1. US policy aimed at stopping the spread of communism
- 3. Metaphor describing the division between East and West Europe
- 6. Soviet leader whose post‑war actions increased East–West tension
- 9. Soviet attempt to force the West out of Berlin in 1948–49
- 12. US president who adopted a tougher stance toward the USSR after 1945
- 14. Soviet report portraying the USA as seeking world domination
- 15. 1945 meeting where the Big Three planned post‑war Europe
- 17. Soviet foreign minister involved in early Cold War negotiations
- 20. Soviet economic organisation set up to counter the Marshall Plan
