"Iron Curtain"?

Question

What did the "Iron Curtain" separate and what is it in real life?
This is during the Cold War. The Iron Curtain separeated a country and I can't remember the answers. This has been bugging me for days.

Answer 1

The term may have been coined by Churchill regarding the Berlin Wall, but as the Cold War progressed, it became synonymous with any country that was under the control and sphere of influence of the USSR....most notably Eastern Europe.

Answer 2

Western Europe from Eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact. When Nazi Germany Fell The Soviet Union had control of Eastern Europe including Half of Germany. The City of Berlin was divided between the Allied Powers and the Soviets had control of East Berlin. Communist Sympathisers in Eastern Europe with the Help of the Soviet Union set up Communists Governments in Germany ,Poland, Latvia ,Lithuania,Estonia, Czechoslovakia,Rumania,and Yugoslavia.Bulgaria. and they were formed into The Warsaw Pact a protective group. In Reality it was the Soviet Government that was Dictating to all the Group and they could not go there own way without the Soviet Unions Permission or change there Laws in any way or else they would be Invaded.This is what was Known as the Iron Curtain.This situation Prevailed for over 40 Odd Years with a stand off Between the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact against the Allies of France Britain West Germany and The United States. Because so many People in Berlin eastern Sector and eastern Germany were leaving for a better life in West Germany the East Germans put up the Berlin Wall in 1962 and Loads of People were Murdered by the East Germans and Russians trying to Escape over the Wall.In 1989 the People Literally Shouted down the Wall and led to the Fall of the Warsaw Pact the rest is History.

Answer 3

The Iron Curtain separated East and West Germany (and Berlin, which became East and West Berlin), right after WWII. Europe was carved up into East and West. Basically, everything on the "East side" of the Curtain was Soviet-controlled, like East Germany, Ukraine, USSR, Czechslovakia, etc. The Berlin Wall was the physical representation of the Iron Curtain in Germany. The West included Austria (Vienna being a "safe" meeting ground in the 60's).

Answer 4

The term came from a speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 (see reference for full copy). He said in it:

"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: Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."

What he described was the action of the USSR, who was occupying those nations at the time, to prevent freedom of movement of people goods and ideas across that border.

The Iron Curtain split East and West Germany - after WW2 Germany's boundaries were adjusted (again) and what was left was given to France, Britain, US and USSR to oversee until Germany could be "reconstructed." The Russians did not want Germany re-united and so they re-named the eastern part the DDR - Deutsche Demokratische Republik and set up socialism there. The western nations had to re-establish the rest of Germany as the FRG - Federal Republic of Germany, we called it West Germany.

The capital, Berlin, had also been divided after WW2 into four pieces for administration, and the Russian portion became East Berlin. The remaining part was an island behind the 'iron curtain' - at one point in 1948 the Russians halted all ground traffic into and ourt of West Berlin in an attempt to starve it into submission. The Allies mounted a great airlift (the Berlin Airlift) and kept it alive until the Russians capitulated. Later in 1963 the US President Kennedy gave a speech in Berlin and said, "Ich bin ein Berliner." (I am a Berliner) - he has been a German hero ever since.

The two Germany's were finally re-united in 1990.

Answer 5

"The Iron Curtain" was coined by Winston Churchill. It represented the Berlin Wall that separated East and West Berlin.