POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE DESCENT OF THE IRON CURTAIN
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Question
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Use the quotation to answer the following question."From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”-Winston Churchill, 1946What was the “iron curtain” that Churchill referred to in this quotation?
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the Berlin Wall that surrounded the western zones of occupation in Berlin
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a dark and gloomy mood that was felt throughout postwar Europe
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the separation between the industrialized world and the developing world
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an invisible line that divided communist Europe from Western Europe
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent, ” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -The term “iron curtain” was the symbol Churchill used to denote the separation of Europe into two rival camps. On one side of the iron curtain were the democracies of western Europe while on the other side were the totalitarian countries of central and eastern European that were dominated by the Soviet Union.
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