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The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and 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 1989...

Timeline of Events

1946

3.5.1946

Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1989

8.23.1989

Hungary: the last communist government opens the Iron curtain and causes the exodus of thousands of Eastern Germans to West Germany via Hungary (September 11).

9.11.1989

The Iron Curtain opens between the communist Hungary and Austria. From Hungary thousands of East Germans throng to Austria and West Germany.