The Iron Curtain SS5H5a

The Iron Curtain divided what continent? 

• Asia
• North America 
• Europe 
• Africa 

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 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

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

• Warsaw Pact
• capitalism
• arms race
• communism

Which of these describes the "Arms Race?"

• The United States and Soviet Union competing to make superior sattelites

• The US and Soviet Union fighting over space technology

• The US and Soviet Union competing to make more powerful nuclear weapons

• The population boom competition between the US and Soviet Union

Who warned that an Iron Curtain of Soviet totalitarianism had fallen across Europe?

• Winston Churchill

• Joseph Stalin

a symbol that represented the tensions between Communist and democratic countries in Europe.

• Brick Wall

• Soviet Union

• Iron Curtain

The Soviets managed to set up communist governments throughout

• Western Europe

• Eastern Europe