USA HISTORY

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.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Churchill called it the ‘Iron Curtain’. Built in 1949 at the start of the Cold War the curtain had the ostensible purpose of keeping ‘imperialist agents’ from sneaking in and endangering a country saved from the greed of capitalism.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Europan countries which were considered to be “behind the Iron Curtain” included: Poland, Estearn Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of a new chapter in our history. The Fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 paved the way for the reunification of Germany and reunification of Europe after more than 40 years of political and economic division between the West and the East.