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Why did an Iron Curtain appeare in Europe in the years after World War 2?
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∙ 12y ago
There was no iron curtain, there was a barbed wire fence that stretched 6300 km. That was just a name we used to describe people living in Communist Countries.
The term was first used by Churchill in his speech at Fulton.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 12y agoan iron curtain appeared in Europe in the years after world war 2 because after World War 2, the USSR, tried to turn the countries it had taken from Germany communist (mainly in the east of Europe) by filling their governments with communist supporters and destroying all opposition. these countries were known as soviet satellite states. they all signed a pact with the USSR called the Warsaw pact which stated that they would help each other in times of war.
to the west of Europe, governments turned to Britain and America for help. these counties were mainly run by democratic parties.
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∙ 16y agoThe "Iron Curtain" was a metaphorical reference to the division of Europe after World War 2.
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∙ 15y agoTo stop the spread of communism.
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How long did the iron curtain separate Europe?
48 years
In the following years world war 2 the countries of communist eastern Europe were often referred to as being behind the iron curtain These countries were perceived as a single region based on?
In the years following World War II, the countries of communist Eastern Europe were often referred to as being "behind the iron curtain." These countries were perceived as a single region based on.... Economic and political characteristics.
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 imaginary line divided eastern and western Europe after World War 2?
Nothing. The term "iron curtain" doesn't happen until after WW2 and the Berlin Wall isn't built until after WW2. Only ideological divides existed after WW1 and will fester for over 20 years until Hitler invades Poland in 1939.
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The Iron Curtain was a term coined in the years after the war by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's control of the countries of Central Europe. "From Stetin on the Baltic, to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended upon the Continent," Churchill spoke in a famous speech in Saint Louis, MO, after the war.
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10
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