Iron Curtain

Dividing a nation has not only a huge impact internationally but to its own citizens as well. The Berlin Wall, for twenty-eight years, separated friends, family, and a nation. Unable to agree on a German peace treaty after world war two, the US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France maintained a four power responsibility in Berlin (Harrison 53). Due to economic, political, and social consequences, the Berlin Wall divided Berlin into two very distinctively different cities. East Berlin was ruled under a Soviet communist regime, while West Berlin was ruled under the influence of the Western World. The division between East Germany and West Germany is what Winston Churchill called the “Iron Curtain” that fell across Europe, isolating its…

Therefore, the Soviets were desperate for a border of some sort. This resulted in the creation of the “Iron Curtain.” The “Iron Curtain” was a “Symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe.” This division was seen as a separation between the East and the West though Winston Churchill's eyes. This is evident In Churchill's iconic “Iron Curtain speech,” which states "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."…

On March 5th, 1946, history was made. Winston Churchill, a former British Prime Minister, was a determined man who wanted to take charge. To warn America on how the Soviets were acting, he gave a speech known as the “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In his speech, he discussed the importance of peace and ending communism between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. At the beginning of his speech, Churchill caught the nations attention quickly by explaining,…

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 capital 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 much 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 many cases, increasing…

What was the Iron Curtain The term Iron Curtain became widely known during the cold war and was used to define the geopolitical, military, physical and ideological boundary that separated states that were members of the Warsaw Pact in Eastern Europe (Eastern Bloc) and those that were not, otherwise called The West. This boundary separated the two areas from World War II to the end of cold war and it represented the Soviet Union’s attempt to shield itself and allies from direct contact with…

Chapter 3.3 - How Stalin aimed to establish Soviet Security with the ‘Iron Curtain’ and Eastern buffer zones surrounding the USSR As the Second World War had drawn to an end Stalin had two main immediate aims; the economic recovery and reconstruction of Soviet territory backed by reparations, which was already partly covered in the previous segments. The other was to establish a Soviet Sphere of influence in the occupied Eastern European countries, as a means of making a ‘buffer zone’ against…

own ideologies about how to rebuild Europe after the war. President Truman and the Russians leader Joseph Stalin were in disagreement on how to divide postwar Europe. The Soviets controlled Poland and most of the Balkans while the American and British forces had liberated Western Europe from Scandinavia to Italy. The Russians were concerned about past invasions and were intent on imposing communist governments loyal to Moscow. The United States believed in self-determination and that the people…

that took place in Europe. Each and every leader had his own role during the cold war including those of who were thought to be giving factors for the birth of the cold war and those of who were thought to be aiming to end the tension, those leaders were such as joseph Stalin, John F.Kennedy, Winston Churchill and etc. mainly to be focused on was Winston Churchill who he was one of those leaders that believed in limiting the abilities of those dominating European affairs. According to (Editors,…

as a threat because what they wanted to do was feel secure. Because they viewed how the East was attacked by the West and then Stalin asked for help against the Nazi and the West did not help they just looked the other way. Then when James Byrnes an American secretary of the state asked for Germany to be disarmed for 25 years the Soviet Union would not agree. Therefore, the West considered this was proof that Stalin was going to expand into Europe and generate a socialist East German.…

After the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union met at the Potsdam Conference to discuss, among other things, the fate of Germany following the reign of the Third Reich. Germany was to be divided into four zones, each controlled by either the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, or France. In addition, Berlin, which lied in the Soviet territory, was divided into four zones. Eventually, an Iron Curtain (as Winston…