The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical 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 "Iron Curtain" was not a physical object, but a description for the complete blockage of information-sharing between western Europe and the Soviet Union, imposed by the people in charge of the...
It divided the countries that were US protected free democracies in Western Europe from countries in Eastern Europe that were under control of the communist Soviet Union.
The "Iron Curtain" is a boundary which divided Europe into two separate zones, symbolically, politically and physically. This began at the end of World War II and continued until the end of the Cold...
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