THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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the Iron Curtain
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Containment
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the Berlin Wall
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Dictatorship
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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 the political 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-3: -Iron Curtain-an imaginary line that divided Eastern and Western Europe. Truman Doctrine-the promise to stop the spread of communism to countries that were not communist. Even before the end of World War II, tensions were building between the U.S. and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R. or Soviet Union).
Detailed explanation-4: -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.