Origins of the Cold War Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• novikov: soviet ambassador who critiqued u.s. intentions in a famous 1946 telegram.
• kennan: american diplomat who warned of soviet expansion in his long telegram.
• cominform: stalin's 1947 initiative to coordinate communist parties in europe.
• curtain: term from churchill's 1946 speech describing soviet control in europe.
• blockade: stalin's 1948 measure to halt allied access to berlin.
• deutschmark: currency introduced in trizonia causing soviet unease in 1948.
• marshallplan: u.s. economic aid package for europe approved in 1948.
• potsdam: conference where truman and stalin expressed conflicting visions for post-war germany in 1945.
• nato: military alliance formed in 1949 to counter soviet expansion.
• airlift: strategic airborne operation supplying west berlin during soviet blockade.
• bizonia: post-war economic union of british and american zones in germany.
• comecon: soviet-led organization to control eastern european economies, begun in 1949.
• czechoslovakia: central european country where a communist coup took place in 1948, consolidating soviet influence.
• tehran: conference where allies planned military strategy and post-war outcomes in 1943.
• hiroshima: japanese city where the usa dropped the atomic bomb on august 6, 1945.
• containment: policy shift by truman to prevent the spread of soviet communism in europe from 1947.