USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Iron Curtain specifically refers to the imaginary line dividing Europe between Soviet influence and Western influence, and symbolizes efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. The Berlin Wall, which divided East and West Germany, was part of the iron curtain.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iron Curtain was located where East and West Berlin met; Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union controlled the nations behind it. These nations included but were not limited to Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and of course, the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -Separate international economic and military alliances were developed on each side of the Iron Curtain. It later became a term for the 7, 000-kilometre-long (4, 300 mi) physical barrier of fences, walls, minefields, and watchtowers that divided the “east” and “west".

Detailed explanation-5: -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.