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Which term did British prime minister Winston churchill use to describe the imaginary barrier separating communist countries from democracies?
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Which term did British prime minister Winston Churchill use to describe the imaginary wall separating communist countries from democracies?
The Iron Curtain. He used the term in a speech in Fulton Missouri in 1946.
What is an imaginary line separating the communist and non-communist countries in Europe?
The Iron Curtain
What role did Korean play in the cold war?
It provided democracies and communist countries with an opportunity to indirectly fight one another :) -Apex-
What countries were communist or democrats in World War II?
The Soviet Union was communist. Spain, Italy, and Germany were socialist, fascist dictatorships. The rest were democracies or monarchies. Japan was an imperial empire.
What was Winston churchill's name for the new group of communist countries in eastern Europe?
An iron curtain.
How did the Iron Curtain divide Europe?
Yes, the term "iron curtain" was coined during the cold war to describe the division between the Communist Soviet Union and the rest of Europe.
What countries are democracies china Vietnam or north Korea?
None of these countries are democracies.
What countries were not under communist control?
Only four countries are communist today. They are China, North Korea, Vietnam and Cuba. All other present day countries are either democracies or under dictatorships.Edit: Five actually. Laos is communist as well.
What countries in Latin America are considered democracies?
It depends on what you consider a "democracy". If you mean a republic with representative powers such as the United States, most of them are with the exception of Cuba, which is a communist state.
Are most of the countries democracies today?
Yes, but only formal democracies.
What did Winston Churchill believe that the Soviet Union was doing to gain control in countries behind what he called ''an iron curtain''?
Churchill Believed that the Soviets were installing communist governments and crushing political and religious dissent.
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.
