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Which British leader used a 1946 speech to popularize the term "Iron Curtain"?
Churchill didn't coin the phrase—it had been used before by Queen Elisabeth of Belgium—but he popularized it in Fulton, Missouri, after being introduced by President Harry Truman.
The Iron Curtain divided Western nations from communist states led by which superpower?
The Soviet Union's barrier was so physical that by the 1950s, the "curtain" included thousands of miles of electrified fences, minefields, and watchtowers, making it nearly impossible to cross from East to West.
Built in 1961, what famous wall became a global symbol of the Iron Curtain?
The Berlin Wall was erected almost overnight on August 13, 1961, catching Berliners by complete surprise; many woke up to find they were suddenly cut off from their jobs and families on the other side.
A 1946 speech said the Iron Curtain ran from Stettin to which city on the Adriatic Sea?
Trieste was a crucial flashpoint because it was a port city claimed by both Italy and Yugoslavia, making it the literal southern anchor of the ideological divide Churchill described.
Which nation helped end the Iron Curtain by opening its border with Austria in 1989?
Hungary's "Pan-European Picnic" in August 1989 was intended to be a small peace demonstration, but it accidentally triggered the fall of the Iron Curtain when hundreds of East Germans used the opportunity to flee into Austria.