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3 days ago · 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 term came to prominence after its use in a speech by Winston Churchill.
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During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political 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.
J. Llewellyn & S. Thompson, “The Iron Curtain”, Alpha History, accessed [today’s date], https://alphahistory.com/coldwar/iron-curtain/. The Iron Curtain was a name, coined by Winston Churchill, for the dividing line between Western democracies and the Soviet regimes of eastern Europe.
Learn about the term, the division, and the fall of the Iron Curtain that marked the Cold War era in Europe. Find out how the Berlin Wall, Gorbachev's reforms, and the Soviet Union's collapse contributed to the end of the Curtain.
Nov 5, 2019 · After World War Two, Europe was carved up by the Soviet Union and its former Western allies, and the Soviets gradually erected an "Iron Curtain" splitting the East from the West. Defeated...
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