USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Iron Curtain was a barrier that divided capitalist and communist nations. This barrier was not physical but instead economic and political. On one side of the curtain, most countries were communist, and on the other side, most were capitalist.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iron Curtain was a metaphor for the extreme political and ideological division that separated Western Europe from the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the east.

Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II, the iron curtain was the political boundary between NATO countries and the Soviet Union. Although the iron curtain began as an imaginary line separating Western democracies from nations that supported the USSR, it eventually included 4, 300 miles of walls and fences.

Detailed explanation-5: -Explanation: The iron curtain was the border between Western capitalist countries, and communist Soviet puppet states in East Europe. That border stretched from East Germany, to Czechia, to Slovakia, to Hungary, to Romania, to Bulgaria.