USA HISTORY

THE COLD WAR 1950 1973

THE COLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The “frozen curtain” was a symbol of the Cold War.
A
It was the wood curtain
B
True
C
False
D
It was the blue curtain
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Berlin Wall became the symbol of the Cold War and a tangible manifestation of the world’s separation into two distinct ideological blocs. Map from the era, illustrating Berlin’s division between the Allied forces.

Detailed explanation-2: -When he spoke of the “Iron Curtain” that had descended from “Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, ” Winston Churchill was acknowledging and announcing a truth which so many in the West were so unwilling to admit – the onset of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-3: -In November of that year, the Berlin Wall–the most visible symbol of the decades-long Cold War–was finally destroyed, just over two years after Reagan had challenged the Soviet premier in a speech at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” By 1991, the Soviet Union itself had fallen apart.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

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