Joseph Stalin imposed what Winston Churchill would call the Iron Curtain after World War II. The figurative curtain separated Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact countries from NATO led and neutral countries.
The term "Iron Curtain" refers to the division between Western Europe and the Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Countries behind the Iron Curtain included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. This metaphorical barrier represented the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism that characterized the era.
The term "Iron Curtain" historically refers to the ideological and physical division between Western capitalist countries and Eastern communist countries during the Cold War. Cities behind the Iron Curtain included major urban centers in Eastern Europe, such as East Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, and Bucharest. These cities were part of the Eastern Bloc, influenced or controlled by the Soviet Union, and were characterized by authoritarian regimes and limited freedoms compared to their Western counterparts.
The Iron Curtain primarily divided Eastern and Western Europe during the Cold War, with countries behind the Iron Curtain including the Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. These nations were under communist influence and were part of the Eastern Bloc, aligned with the Soviet Union. In contrast, Western Europe consisted of democratic nations such as West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological divide between capitalism and communism.
Soviet Union
The Iron Curtain countries were the Soviet Union, controlled by Russia.
The term "Iron Curtain" dates from after the WW 2 and Nazi era. The eastern European countries behind the so-called curtain were dominated by the Soviet Union.
An 'iron curtain'
Joseph Stalin imposed what Winston Churchill would call the Iron Curtain after World War II. The figurative curtain separated Soviet-controlled Warsaw Pact countries from NATO led and neutral countries.
His description was an 'Iron Curtain' had descended upon Soviet controlled territories .
THe countries "behind the iron curtain" were: GDR (German Democratic Republic), Poland,Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania. Of course it was not a curtain, but Churchill referred to the dividedness of Europe with this word: the capitalist and the communist part of it.
The Iron Curtain was a term coined in the years after the war by Winston Churchill to describe the Soviet Union's control of the countries of Central Europe. "From Stetin on the Baltic, to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended upon the Continent," Churchill spoke in a famous speech in Saint Louis, MO, after the war.
The Iron Curtain is a term that was coined by Churchill during his speech on March 5, 1946. Its not actually a curtain, its made up of different countries between the Soviet Union and germany.
The iron curtain.
The Warsaw Pact was eastern Europe's response to NATO
it depends in which side of the curtain are you if you are on the east side ... then behind the curtain was the west capitalism if you are on the west side . behind the curtain was the east comunism
None. The 'Iron Curtain' no longer exists. During the Cold War ? I meant I know not now