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Aug 21, 2024 · Iron Curtain, political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the U.S.S.R after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
May 23, 2024 · A phrase coined by Winston Churchill, the Iron Curtain was a physical, political, military and ideological barrier that stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea that was erected right after World War II. It consisted of barriers, barbed wire and guard posts manned by Soviet forces.
- Diana Bocco
May 17, 2024 · The Iron Curtain was a figurative and ideological wall — and eventually a physical one — that separated the Soviet Union from western Europe after World War II.
- Henry Blodget
1. The Iron Curtain was a Cold War name for the borders between Western and Soviet Europe. It was coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 during a speech in Fulton, Missouri. 2. The formation of a Soviet bloc in Europe occurred after World War II.
Feb 28, 2022 · Russian premier Joseph Stalin described the speech as “war mongering”, but the Iron Curtain became an important definition in Cold War politics for the next 45 years. The political and ideological division between the Soviet Union and the West after WW2 split Europe in two.
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Apr 17, 2024 · Travel | April 17, 2024. How Museums in Central and Eastern Europe Tell the Complicated Story of Life Behind the Iron Curtain. Grassroots exhibitions popping up in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria,...
