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What was Winston churchill's name for the new group of communist countries in eastern Europe?
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∙ 11y ago
An iron curtain.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe Eastern Bloc.
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What does it mean that there is iron curtain across the continent?
It is a metaphor coined by Winston Churchill in the years after WW 2, when the Soviet-dominated Communist countries in eastern Europe closed their borders to Western Europe to their own citizens. It was as though the Communist countries were behind a curtain, an iron curtain.
What was the Eastern bloc made up of?
communist countries led by the Soviet Union
Was the iron curtain a product of nazi Germany or the soviet union?
The iron curtain was a product of the Soviet union and the spread of communism through eastern europe through the 1950s and 60s. There was a gigantic ideological and economical divide between communist eastern european countries and the capitalist western european countries. The communist countries were believed to be behind an "iron curtain" as Winston Churchill put it. The biggest physical symbol of this was the Berlin Wall.
Why did many Eastern European countries become associated with USSR?
Eastern European countries became communist, which was a political ideology modernized by the USSR.
Why do western Europeans generally have a higher standard of living than eastern Europeans?
Haha. I saw this in my homework. Well it is simple. The west is more rich because the countries in eastern Europe used to be communist, and the leaders of the eastern European countries still have communist.
What were the Eastern Bloc made up of?
communist countries led by the soviet union
Countries in Eastern Europe that have Communist gov'ts and are in part controlled by the US?
satelite
What is the best description of eastern Europe countries after World War 2?
Communist
The communist controlled satellite countries of eastern Europe were set up by?
STALIN!!!
What eastern bloc was made up of?
communist countries led by the Soviet Union
The communist-controlled satellite countries of eastern Europe were set up by?
stalin
Were most of the eastern countries in Europe communist?
Yes, they were. They were mainly communist because of either rule or influence by the Soviet Union.
