COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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heavily fortified border between Poland and the USSR
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boundary between Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe
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border between Eastern Europe and the USSR
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boundary separating Eastern Europe from East Germany
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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: -After World War II, the iron curtain was the political boundary between NATO countries and the Soviet Union. Although the iron curtain began as an imaginary line separating Western democracies from nations that supported the USSR, it eventually included 4, 300 miles of walls and fences.
Detailed explanation-3: -Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.
Detailed explanation-4: -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. The term symbolized efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and non-Soviet-controlled areas.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.