Question

This is an excerpt from Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, March 5, 1946

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe…All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow.”

How is the “iron curtain” a dividing line?

Answer 1

its the border between communist/soviet satellite countries and the mostly democratic east europe. it also created political and judicial tensions throughout the cold war.

Answer 2

Well, the iron curtain was a divide of the eastern and western parts of Europe at the time. While the Eastern side was under the Soviet Union and practiced Communism, the Western part practiced Democracy. Neither side were suppose to "convert" to the other, which ever side you were on before the curtain went up, you stayed on.

Answer 3

lol i oops'ed i meant west europe lol

Answer 4

The iron curtain divides the line between the Western and Eastern part of Europe. In the Eastern part of Europe under the rule of the Soviet Union, Communism was the type of government practiced. While The other part enjoyed a democratic form of government. Neither country on either side was supposed "to go join the other side". Thus the iron curtain divided Europe but not for long.