History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1809 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Iron Curtain
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The idea
On March fifth, nineteen forty-six, Winston Churchill, visiting Truman's home state of Missouri, declared that an iron curtain had descended across Europe.
In practice
Soviet-organised Communist governments in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Poland by nineteen forty-seven, as Digital History lists.
Where people slip
A Communist coup took Czechoslovakia in nineteen forty-eight, Digital History adds. Yalta's Poland clause of unit twelve had come due.
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