COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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the boundary between Western Europe and communist Eastern Europe
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the boundary between the United States and Mexico
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the boundary between the United States and Mexico
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the wall dividing East and West Berlin
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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: -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-4: -The nations to the east of the Iron Curtain were Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and the USSR; however, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the USSR have since ceased to exist.