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What was the Iron Curtain?
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Imaginary line separating East and West Europe during the Cold War
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What countries were occupied by the Soviet Union
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Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia
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Churchill's delivers his Iron Curtain speech
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March 5, 1946Westminster College in Fulton, MissouriFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
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Stalin's response
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Stalin saw the speech as a deliberate and unfair attempt to paint the Soviet Union as aggressive and untrustworthy.
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The long telegram
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February 1946An 8,000-word telegram to the Department of State detailing views on the Soviet Union, and US policy toward the communist state. It's analysis provided one of the most influential explanations for America's Cold War policy of containment.
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George Kennan
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The American charge d'affaires in MoscowSent the long telegramStressed the need to contain communism within its current borders
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