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Aug 21, 2024 · During the Cold War the Iron Curtain extended to the airwaves. The attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency -funded Radio Free Europe (RFE) to provide listeners behind the Curtain in the Eastern bloc with uncensored news were met with efforts by communist governments to jam RFE’s signal.
During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
By the late 1940s, most of eastern Europe was cloaked behind what became known as the Iron Curtain. By the start of 1946, the process of ‘sovietisation’ was well underway in these countries, which collectively became known as the Eastern Bloc or Soviet Bloc.
- Post-war tensions between superpowers. The seeds of the Cold War were already being sown before the Second World War was even over. In early 1945, the Allies, made up of the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the United States, realised that they were well on their way to defeating the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan.
- Mutually Assured Destruction’ and the nuclear arms race. Dan sat down with Julie McDowall to talk about Britain's plans in case of nuclear Armageddon during the Cold War.
- Ideological opposition. The ideological opposition between the US and the Soviet Union, whereby the US practiced and promoted a system of democracy and capitalism versus the Soviet Union’s communism and dictatorship, further worsened relations and contributed to the slide into the Cold War.
- Disagreements over Germany and the Berlin Blockade. It was agreed at the Potsdam Conference that Germany be divided into four zones until it was stable enough to be reunified.
Aug 1, 2024 · The Iron Curtain speech was delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Churchill used the speech to emphasize the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “ iron curtain ...
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The Iron Curtain is a Western term made famous by Winston Churchill referring to the boundary which symbolically, ideologically, and physically divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II, until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1990. After the end of the Cold War and the spheres of influence were determined by ...
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Aug 4, 2019 · The 'Iron Curtain' was a phrase used to describe the physical, ideological and military division of Europe between the western and southern capitalist states and the eastern, Soviet-dominated communist nations during the Cold War, 1945–1991.
