Cold War Origins Crossword Puzzle

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Cold War Origins Crossword Puzzle

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  • hitler: the allies were united against...
  • nato: formed in 1949
  • warsaw pact: formed in 1955
  • berlin: the city divided and occupied by the four allies
  • stalin: the leader of the ussr in 1945
  • fdr: the leader of the usa in 1943
  • churchill: the leader of the uk in 1943
  • fulton: the town in missouri where a famous speech was made
  • iron curtain: descended across europe, from stetting in the baltic to trieste in the adriatic
  • ideology: a set of beliefs, e.g. communism or capitalism
  • tehran: the first big 3 conference in 1943
  • yalta: the conference wherein it was agreed war criminals would be pursued and tried
  • potsdam: the conference with the 4 "de-s"
  • manhattan: the project to build and test a nuclear bomb in america
  • hiroshima: the first place an atomic bomb was dropped
  • marshall: the aid given to western europe to help with post-war recovery
  • doctrine: the truman <blank> promised support to countries against foreign oppression
  • greece: the civil war here prompted an american response (truman...)
  • czechoslovakia: 'fell' to communist control in 1948
  • poland: the ussr promised a free government here, but betrayed that promise
  • blockade: the 1948 action preventing allied entry to a major german city
  • airlift: the united western response to the 1948 action by stalin
  • yugoslavia: led by tito, a communist nation outside of the ussr's control
  • comecon: an economic organization from 1949 to 1991 under the leadership of the soviet union