The Iron Curtain refers to the separation between the communist and the democratic nations during the Cold war in Europe. Today the term is now irrelevant.
Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain."
The Iron Curtain was a metaphor for the Stalin's seemingly impenetrable partition of Europe between an authoritarian east and democratic west. Among the most symbolic manifestations to the Iron Curtain was the Berlin Wall.
No. The "iron curtain" referred to the Warsaw Pact nations, not the NATO countries.
The term iron curtain was used by Winston Churchill to describe the border between communist western Europe and democratic eastern Europe.
Communist nations between the iron curtain and the soviet union were found in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland
The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain divided Europe into two halves, east and west. The western democratic countries were on the side of the United States. The eastern communist countries were on the side of the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain fell when communism collapsed and the eastern European countries became democratic.
The iron curtain was the border that divided Europe between the democratic west and the communist east. It lasted from 1945 to 1991.
the political and economic division between the democratic west and the communist east
The Iron Curtain (completed in 1952) and the Berlin Wall (1961). The iron curtain was an analogy. It was used to describe that eastern Europe was mostly communist, whlie western Europe was mostly democratic. The Iron Curtain wasn't an actual place.
the political and economic division between the democratic west and the communist east
THe countries "behind the iron curtain" were: GDR (German Democratic Republic), Poland,Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania. Of course it was not a curtain, but Churchill referred to the dividedness of Europe with this word: the capitalist and the communist part of it.
The iron curtain.