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=__THE IRON CURTAIN__=


 * = **The concept of the** Iron Curtain **symbolized the fighting and physical boundary [[image:curtaain.jpg align="right" caption="THE DIVIDER"]]Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War ll in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1989. On either side of the Iron Curtain states developed their own international economic and military alliances.** =
 * **They divided the communist nations of eastern europe from western europe.**

== //__**Iron Curtain Speech**__//**:** 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. // -Winston Churchillmedia type="youtube" key="jvax5VUvjWQ" height="349" width="425" //==