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- The Iron Curtain largely ceased to exist in 1989–90 with the communists’ abandonment of one-party rule in eastern Europe.
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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.
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
Mar 31, 2018 · Speaking in early 1946, former British leader Winston Churchill warned that “an iron curtain had descended on the continent” and was preventing “the liberated Europe we fought to build up”. As time passed, this iron curtain transitioned from a political metaphor to a hard border, designed to keep the West out and the people of Eastern ...
Sep 14, 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
- c. 1946-c. 1990
- Europe
It was only in 1991 when the Cold War ended and the one party communist rule in Eastern Europe was abandoned that the Curtain ceased to exist. According to worldatlas.com, the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain came on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Berlin from West Berlin was pulled down.
Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.
