POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE DESCENT OF THE IRON CURTAIN
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block the sun
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Seperated East and West Europe
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Iron Curtain formed the imaginary 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. The term symbolized 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: -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". The Berlin Wall was also part of this physical barrier.
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: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Iron Curtain is a Western term referring to the boundary which divided Europe into two separate areas of political influence and ideology from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War.