The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain divided what continent? 

• Asia
• North America 
• Europe 
• Africa 

Which statement is correct when regarding the Iron Curtain? (Choose TWO)

• Term used by Winston Churchill to describe Post War WWII

• Term used to separate East Europe, which was Communist; and West Europe, which was Capitalist

• Term used to separate East Europe, which was Capitalist; and West Europe, which Communist

• Term to describe an actual wall built by Stalin...he made Germany pay for it

The ____________ cut off Eastern Europe from the West metaphorically speaking.

• The Marshall Plan

• The Berlin Airlift

• WWII

• The Iron Curtain

The Iron Curtain is an __________boundary.

• Historical

• Imaginary

• Physical

• Metal, nonmetal or metalloid.

The Iron Curtain divided:

• Eastern and Western Europe

• World War I and World War II

• USSR and Russia

• Europe and Russia

The Iron Curtain existed in:

• 1880

• 1950

• 1980

• 2018

The Iron Curtain was a wall that divided countries.

• True

• False

The origins of the Iron Curtain originated in a graduation speech given by this famous person at Westminster College in Missouri in 1946. The speech referred to an “iron curtain” that was descending between eastern and western Europe.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Josef Stalin

• Winston Churchill

Economic system based on private ownership and a free market.

• Warsaw Pact
• capitalism
• arms race
• communism

An economic and social system in which property is owned equally and controlled by the government.

• Warsaw Pact
• capitalism
• arms race
• communism