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Less than a year after the end of the World War II, the great wartime leader of Britain, Winston Churchill, delivered this speech coining the term "iron curtain" to describe the line in Europe between self-governing nations of the West and those in Eastern Europe under Soviet Communist control.
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www.historyplace.com/speeches/ironcurtain.htm
www.historyplace.com/speeches/ironcurtain.htm
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By Brian Rose, documenting the landscape of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall in 1985; the dismantling of the Wall at the end of 1989; and the subsequent changes in the border zone, particularly at Potsdamer Platz. ... Requieum for the Iron Curtain; by Anthony Bailey...
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www.brianrose.com/lostborder.htm
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Related content from HighBeam Research on: cold war: The Iron Curtain and Containment ... Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain.(Review) (Parameters) ... Rolling Back the Iron Curtain.(Brief Article)(Review) (Newsweek International)
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www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0857419.html
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Iron Curtain, policy of isolation set up by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR after World War II 1939-45 that involved rigid censorship... ... Search Encarta about Iron Curtain...
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Iron Curtain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological and 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. O...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the National Security Archive and its research partners in East and Central Europe today released previously secret documents from behind the Iron Curtain detailing the ultimately futile scramble by the Communist parties of the region to stay in power in 1989 --
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www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/19991105/index.html
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The text of Churchill's speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, on 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.
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