Catalogue question 185 · Question catalogue in force since 2024-07-01
What did the term "Iron Curtain" refer to? The sealing off of …
- of the Warsaw Pact against the West Correct
- of northern Germany against southern Germany
- of Nazi Germany against the Allies
- of Europe against the USA
Why — for every option
- A — Correct: "Iron Curtain" referred to the political, military and ideological boundary between the Soviet-dominated Eastern Bloc (Warsaw Pact) and the West during the Cold War.
- B — The term referred to the East-West division of Europe, not to a north-south division of Germany.
- C — The term was coined only after the Second World War for the East-West division, not for the Nazi era against the Allies.
- D — The term described the separation between Eastern and Western Europe, not specifically between Europe and the USA (which belonged to the West).
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