Division of Germany · Question 56 of 69
What did the term "Iron Curtain" stand for? For the sealing off of …
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- B the Warsaw Pact from the West
Explanation
The "Iron Curtain" was the name for the heavily guarded border with which the Warsaw Pact states sealed themselves off from the West during the Cold War. It ran right across Europe and also through Germany. The term became widely known through a 1946 speech by the British politician Winston Churchill.