USA HISTORY

WORLD WAR II 1941 1945

THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the Iron Curtain?
A
A border put into place after WWII for new countries
B
An imaginary line that separated the democratic countries and the communists countries
C
An imaginary line that kept Communism in the SU
D
The border between the four zones of Germany
Explanation: 

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 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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Iron Curtain was a barrier that divided capitalist and communist nations. This barrier was not physical but instead economic and political. On one side of the curtain, most countries were communist, and on the other side, most were capitalist.

Detailed explanation-5: -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).

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