In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into ... as the beginning of the Cold War, as well as asserting the need ...

A symbolic Iron Curtain cut through the middle of Europe: East vs West. It was called the Cold War, as the two sides never directly fought. But they battled each other in different ways.

The meeting underlined the differences between the Allied powers, and set the stage for a post-war "cold" war that would ... against Soviet Communism. The Iron Curtain For his part, Stalin began ...

The month before the picnic, the foreign ministers of Hungary and Austria had symbolically snipped the border fence, the physical "Iron Curtain ... Germany charts 327 Cold War border deaths ...