What Is Meant by the Term the Iron Curtain

question 79

Multiple Choice

What is meant by the term the iron curtain?

• A) a metaphor for the first physical confrontation of the Cold War, in which Stalin blocked land routes into Berlin
• B) a metaphor for the political divisions between the United States and the Soviet Union that produced no agreement on the unification of Germany
• C) a metaphor for the political, ideological, and physical separation of the Soviet Union and Western countries during the Cold War
• D) a metaphor for the competing theories of what started the Cold War-American aggression or Soviet ideology

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