Significance Of The Iron Curtain

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 non-Soviet nations, specifically those allied to NATO. European countries were in three different categories; Countries allied to USSR were to the east of the curtain, neutral countries to the west, and US-allied countries also to the West. The Berlin Wall was the most notable “Iron Curtain.” …show more content…
Critics opined that the Iron Curtain was built to keep communism and communist populations inside the Soviet Union-controlled areas and not to keep out capitalism or capitalist people from the West. To the west, the Iron Curtain represented a monument failure of the command economic theories of the Soviet Union. Although previously used in the early nineteenth century to refer to fireproof safety curtains in theatres, former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill made it