Question

Which of the following describes the Iron Curtain?

Answer 1

Answer: the line dividing democratic and communist countries in Europe

Explanation: At a speech given by Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, Churchill said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent of Europe." After World War II, Eastern European countries were ruled by communist governments that were controlled by the Soviet Union. The Western European countries were non-communist, and most were democratic.

Answer 2

The Iron Curtain was the name for the 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 term symbolizes the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states.