Answer: The term "Iron Curtain" is used to describe a "wall" between Western Europe and Eastern Europe. During the Cold War, Eastern European nations (with the exception of Yugoslavia) were sort of the Soviet Union's puppets. This "wall" divided East Germany and West Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, and Italy and Yugoslavia.
The Iron Curtain.
The iron curtain
The Iron Curtain.
The Berlin Wall and the Iron curtain, its right. :)
The Berlin Wall "represented" the iron curtain. Strictly symbolic.
Churchill
They were both a separation of West and East; the Berlin Wall was seen as the 'physical' Iron Curtain that Winston Churchill had spoken of in his speech.
The iron curtain was just a term used to symbolize the wall between the east and western countries. It was not a real curtain.
Winston Churchill coined the phrase iron curtain. The iron curtain referred to the Berlin Wall which separated Eastern and Western Europe. The Berlin Wall goes right through the center of Berlin, Germany.
The "Iron Curtain"
It was called the 'Berlin Wall' or the 'Iron Curtain'.
Fall of Berlin Wall in November 1989