HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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It was the dividing line between North and South Korea.
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It was the division in Europe between non-communists and communists.
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It was the main cause of World War II.
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It was the wall that split East and West Berlin.
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It was the main cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Iron Curtain Speech. Winston Churchill’s “Sinews of Peace” address of March 5, 1946, at Westminster College, used the term “iron curtain” in the context of Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an “Iron Curtain” has descended across the continent.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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: -Churchill hated the Soviet Union and wanted to cause problems for it. Churchill was worried that the USA would withdraw from international affairs as it had done in the 1930s and he thought this would be bad for international relations.
Detailed explanation-5: -Winston Churchill referred to the post-WWII divide between European nations as “the Iron Curtain” in a famous speech. People picked up this terminology because although the term “Iron Curtain” was figurative, the divide was thought to be as impenetrable as iron.
Detailed explanation-6: -Soon such governments, aided by the Soviet Red Army came to power all across eastern Europe. Stalin was determined to create a buffer zone to prevent any future invasion of the Russian heartland. Winston Churchill remarked in 1946 that an “iron curtain had descended across the continent."