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The [[Iron Curtain]] referred to the bar to travel, commerce and communication with the nations of the West and the USSR erected by the [[Soviet Union]] after [[World War II]]. The phrase was coined by [[Winston Churchill]], in 1946, in a speech at [[Westminster College]] in Fulton, [[Missouri]]. The [[Berlin Wall]] was perhaps its most visible symbol, dividing the city into the free [[West Berlin]] and the [[East Berlin]] under Soviet [[dictator]]ship. The Iron Curtain's shredding took place after a series of events in the 1980s, perhaps best symbolized by [[Ronald Reagan]]'s demand on June 12, 1987 that Premier [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] of the Soviet Union "tear down this wall". The wall fell on November 9, 1989. [http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/berlinwall-timeline.htm]
The [[Iron Curtain]] was a metaphorical term referring to the bar to travel, commerce and communication between the nations of the West and the nations under the control of the [[Soviet Union]].
It was erected by the Soviet Union after [[World War II]] and was the first part of the [[Cold War]]. The phrase was coined by [[Winston Churchill]], in 1946, in a speech at [[Westminster College]] in Fulton, [[Missouri]]. The [[Berlin Wall]] was perhaps its most visible symbol, dividing the German city into the free [[West Berlin]] and the [[East Berlin]] under Soviet [[dictator]]ship.
The Iron Curtain's shredding took place after a series of events in the 1980s, perhaps best symbolized by [[Ronald Reagan]]'s demand on June 12, 1987 that Premier [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] of the Soviet Union "tear down this wall". The wall fell on November 9, 1989 followed in a few short years by the Soviet Union itself. <ref>http://www.dailysoft.com/berlinwall/history/berlinwall-timeline.htm</ref>
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