Multiple choice

What was the iron curtain?

  1. It was used to describe Eastern European culture.

  2. It was the line separating North and South Vietnam.

  3. Stalin's phrase to describe the United States.

  4. Churchill’s phrase to describe Soviet influence in Europe.
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Explanation

Winston Churchill famously used the term 'iron curtain' in a 1946 speech to describe the division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern Bloc and the rest of Europe.

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