WORLD HISTORY

INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939

COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What are the two terms used to describe the dividing line between eastern and western, communist, and non-communist areas.
A
NATO and Warsaw Pact
B
Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall
C
Allied Powers and Axis Powers
D
Nazi Germany and Free Germany
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -The Iron Curtain was not actually a physical wall in most places, but it separated the communist and capitalist countries. The Berlin wall on the other hand was actually a wall that was built right through the middle of Berlin the capital of Germany.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Berlin Wall was important physically, as well as psychologically, because Berlin was the only city that was divided physically by the Cold War between the Soviet Union and its allies in the Eastern Bloc and the West.

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