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Who came up with the term iron curtain?
Winston Churchill
Was the iron curtain an actual iron curtain?
No. It was like invisible, there were only military forces. The term "iron curtain" was just a metaphor.
How did south Vietnam violate the iron curtain?
There was no such thing as an "Iron Curtain" (a curtain made of iron). The name was simply a symbolic term representing communist countries, with the USSR primarily being the center focus. Consequently, the term "behind the iron curtain" meant being in a communist nation (primarily meaning the USSR).
Why was the iron curtain created in the Cold War?
The iron curtain was just a term used to symbolize the wall between the east and western countries. It was not a real curtain.
What was the imaginary line that separated the communist nations of eastern Europe from the west?
As coined in a speech March 5th 1946, by Winston Churchill the term for a symbolic boundary dividing Europe into communist & non communist spheres is "the iron curtain" the iron center
