What did the so called iron curtain represent?

Answer 1

The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

Answer 2

Both terms, used in a speech by Churchill, displayed the stance of Russia in not allowing the Western powers into East Germany and the closing of the border. Thus, it became the "Iron Curtain" and the cold war had started. A war without true fighting but a staring match through the curtain of communism.

Answer 3

The Soviet Union had made it a goal to expand its territory, the empire if you will, and their opposition from Western Europe's powers tried to prevent it, along with the citizens of those countries being taken over. Because of this, harsh borders existed where the Soviet Union's control ended, and Winston Churchill named it the "iron curtain."

Answer 4

The Soviet Union controlled the puppet regimes of eastern Europe following WW II, and to maintain that control they had to keep out western influences, hence the iron curtain. At this point in history it is possible to debate whether the USSR really wanted to take over the entire world, or merely was trying to create a safety buffer between itself and any future invasions from western Eurpe (having already suffered two major invasions, first by Napoleon, and later and much more destructively by Hitler). But the Cold War was a struggle for global dominance between the two nuclear armed super-powers, the US and the USSR.

Answer 5

It represented the differences between Russia and Western nations. It wasn't a real object, but a phrase used by Churchill in a speech about the Cold War. When someone crossed into Russia they were going behind the "iron curtain".

Answer 6

the iron curtain pertains to the ideological and political division of Europe; and this is part of the US-USSR clash: known as the cold war

Answer 7

There never was a real iron curtain, but referred to the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall.