During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate...
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up Iron Curtain or iron curtain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Iron Curtain was the boundary dividing Europe in the Cold War. Iron Curtain may...
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The Iron Curtain is a 1948 American thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William A. Wellman. It was the first film on the...
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Iron Curtain was an active protection system (APS) created in 2005 and designed by Artis, an American technology development and manufacturing firm. The...
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Revolutions of 1989 (redirect from The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989)
the peaceful fall of communism in Poland. Also in June 1989, Hungary began dismantling its section of the physical Iron Curtain. In August 1989, the opening...
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The Iron Curtain Trail (ICT), also known as EuroVelo 13 (EV13), is a long-distance cycling route along the route of the former Iron Curtain, from the...
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Moore, the film is set in the Cold War. It is about an American scientist who appears to defect behind the Iron Curtain to East Germany. It is the first...
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Behind the Iron Curtain refers to being east of the Cold War European boundary known as the Iron Curtain. Behind the Iron Curtain could also refer to:...
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production behind the Iron Curtain. The band's third official video, entitled Behind the Iron Curtain, was released in October 1984. The World Slavery Tour documentary...
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The Strait of Otranto (Albanian: Ngushtica e Otrantos; Italian: Canale d'Otranto) connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from...
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widely known. The safety curtain is sometimes referred to as an iron curtain (or iron) in British theatres, regardless of the actual construction material...
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Cold War (redirect from The Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s)
since the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and ultimately brought about the fall of the Iron Curtain. The patrons of the picnic, Otto von Habsburg and the Hungarian...
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Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were...
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Behind the Iron Curtain is a live album released by German singer Nico in 1986. It features a concert recorded at De Doelen Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal (Great...
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Peaceful Revolution (redirect from The Wende)
travel beyond the Iron Curtain. About 3.5 million people left the GDR for West Germany before the building of the Berlin Wall and the Inner German border...
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Behind the Iron Curtain is a discontinued VHS/Beta/LaserDisc/VHD video by the English band Iron Maiden. The video features footage of the band on the road...
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List of Cold War pilot defections (redirect from First MiG behind the Iron Curtain)
During the Cold War, a number of pilots from various nations (Eastern Bloc, Western Bloc, and non-aligned) defected with their aircraft to other countries...
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The distinctiveness of Western Europe became most apparent during the Cold War, when Europe was divided for 40 years by the Iron Curtain into the Western...
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After World War II, Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain into two parts, the capitalist Western Bloc and the communist Eastern Bloc, although Austria...
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Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire. Another definition was created by the Cold War, as Europe was ideologically divided by the Iron Curtain, with "Eastern...
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Berlin Wall (redirect from The Berlin Wall)
particular) and the events of the "Pan-European Picnic" set in motion a peaceful development during which the Iron Curtain largely broke, rulers in the East came...
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(though the term bamboo curtain itself is rarely used in that specific context).[citation needed] The colorful term bamboo curtain was derived from Iron Curtain...
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Winston Churchill (redirect from The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill)
he became Leader of the Opposition. Amid the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union, he publicly warned of an "iron curtain" of Soviet influence in...
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to seamlessly blend the aesthetics of British progressive rock with American jazz-rock. During the era of the so-called Iron Curtain, Leslie Mandoki and...
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The Steel Curtain was the nickname, first for the defensive line, but soon for the entire defensive unit of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers football team...
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The Iron Curtain was the defensive line of Rangers F.C. during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The normal line-up in the early 1950s consisted of goalkeeper...
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Powerslave (redirect from Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Iron Maiden song))
behind the Iron Curtain, visiting Poland and Hungary, a landmark achievement at the time. It continued into South America – the first time the band had...
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In 1946 he gave his "Iron Curtain" speech which spoke of the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Eastern Bloc; Churchill...
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Katja Hoyer (category Fellows of the Royal Historical Society)
hear 'the whole story' about East Germany". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2024-06-12. Life in East Germany: the cultural evolution behind the Iron Curtain Hoyer...
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Pyramid power (section Origin of the term)
Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain to pyramid power. This book introduced both the concept of pyramid power and the story about Antoine Bovis to the English-speaking...
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