Iron Curtain

Iron Curtain The iron curtain wall was built by the Soviet Union it divided Europe into two separate areas. It was built at the end of World War II in 1945. Both sides of the Iron Curtain the states made their own economy and military forces. On March 5, 1946 Winston Church made his speech.
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow."
The Soviet Union was controlled by Hitler (a man who hated the Jews and tried to kill them all). The Soviet Union wanted to control all of Europe and eventually the world. On one side of the wall people were poor and had a rough life on the other side they were well-off and had normal lives. The term "The Iron Curtain" was named by German Chancellor Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk. On some parts of The iron curtain wall it was a fence line with barb wire and guarded with the Soviet Union army but most of it was a big cement wall with guards and pointed wire on the top. The wall stood until 1991 when the USA helped and the rebals destroyed the wall.