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During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Arriving in Berlin on Friday, June 12, 1987, Reagan and his wife were taken to the Reichstag where they viewed the wall from a balcony. [14] Reagan then gave his speech at the Brandenburg Gate at 2:00 p.m., in front of two panes of bulletproof glass shielding him from East Berlin. [15]
The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall, pronounced [ˈmaʊ̯ɐˌfal] ⓘ) on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
Part of the former "iron curtain" in Devínska Nová Ves, Bratislava. After the Second World War the original borders of Czechoslovakia were restored and special police units were established to protect the borders together with the army. At this time the main goal of the border protection force was to ensure that the expelled German civil ...
By the end of the Cold War, as many as 300 United States citizens were thought to have defected across the Iron Curtain for a variety of reasons [24] – whether to escape criminal charges, for political reasons, or because (as the St. Petersburg Times put it) "girl-hungry GIs [were tempted] with seductive sirens, who usually desert the love ...
The Iron Curtain and its physical manifestations in heavily guarded border fences and crossings, as seen in Czechoslovakia and in East Germany, were a dominant factor in the movement to unite Europe. Although some countries, such as East Germany, had a hard-line Communist power structure, others, such as Hungary, took a reform-oriented approach.
Safety curtain of St Martin's Theatre in London. The lever and weights used to operate a fire curtain as seen from a theatre's backstage. A safety curtain (or fire curtain in America) is a passive fire protection feature used in large proscenium theatres. It is usually a heavy fabric curtain located immediately behind the proscenium arch.
The Iron Curtain was the boundary dividing Europe in the Cold War. Iron Curtain may also refer to: Safety curtain, in theatres; Iron Curtain (countermeasure), an active protection system; Iron Curtain (football), the defensive line of Rangers Football Club in the 1940s and 1950s; Iron Curtain, a comedy musical about the Soviet Union