Question

What was the Iron Curtain?









The difference between free market systems and planned economies.



The splitting of Germany into East Germany and West Germany.





The separation of North Korea from South Korea.



The division between democratic and communist countries.

Answer 1

D.

Answer 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. The term Iron Curtain had been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946, when he said of the communist states, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”