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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.
The Iron Curtain was a term used to define the separation of Europe into areas of communist and non-communist influence after the end of World War II. The phrase was first used by...
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.
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Mar 31, 2018 · The Iron Curtain was a colloquial name for the boundary between Soviet-controlled Europe and the rest of the continent. The Soviet Red Army, after releasing the nations of Eastern Europe from Nazi oppression in 1945, worked to install governments that would adopt socialism and align with Moscow.
In some jurisdictions safety/fire curtains were originally created from sheet metal and hence called iron curtains, or “iron” for short. The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh (opened in 1883) was reported in the Scottish media of the time to have been fitted with the first iron safety curtain in the UK, however research shows the third Theatre ...
Aug 16, 2016 · On 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill gave his famous ‘Iron Curtain’ speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speech that Churchill called the ‘Sinews of Peace’ later became better known for the famous phrase it contained, ‘iron curtain’. But did Churchill coin the phrase?
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The Iron Curtain is a term that received prominence after Winston Churchill’s speech in which he said that an “iron curtain has descended” across Europe. He was referring to the boundary line that divided Europe in two different political areas: Western Europe had political freedom, while Eastern Europe was under communist Soviet rule.
