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Iron Curtain
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Iron Curtain The term iron curtain was coined by the...Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent...1990, pp. 303 – 304) The iron curtain refers to the boundary that divided Europe...
iron lung
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body iron lung While ‘iron curtain’ has a provenance that is clear, the origins of the term ‘iron lung’ are uncertain. First records of its use surfaced...
Curtain
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...tabs is now applied to any front curtain, and is sometimes misapplied to the curtain set on the stage itself. Two other curtains in the proscenium are the advertisement curtain and the safety curtain , or iron . The former appeared in the latter...
Iron
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Iron, see SAFETY CURTAIN .
King, Martin Luther, Jr
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...the movement within U.S. civic traditions and Cold War politics. “If we were incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a communistic nation we couldn't do this,” he said, “but the great glory of American democracy...
North Korea
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...along with its culture, history, and society, and the daily lives of its residents — is hidden behind iron curtains. So little is known about North Korea that the country is often demonized in the Western media. This is in a stark...
Movies, Espionage and Intelligence Portrayals
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security ...Cold War era. Such films as The Iron Curtain (1948) and The Third Man (1949...Hitchcock offering from this era, Torn Curtain (1966), with Paul Newman and Julie...to a piece of fabric, but to the iron curtain. James Bond and the Marriage...
Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...such as Running Fence and Valley Curtain. Christo Vladimiroff Javacheff...His first major foray was his Iron Curtain — Wall of Oil Barrels...coastline near Sydney. The Valley Curtain, built in the Grand Hogback Mountain...
Radio Free Europe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...purpose was to broadcast news to countries behind the "Iron Curtain" during the cold war . In 1975, it was merged with...Europe (1958); A. A. Michie, Voices through the Iron Curtain (1963); D. Shanor, The New Voice of Radio Free...
cold war
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...differences between communism and capitalist democracy . The Iron Curtain and Containment Mutual suspicion had long existed between...of an implacable threat that lay behind a Communist "iron curtain." The United States, taking the lead against the...

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Iron Curtain
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History IRON CURTAIN IRON CURTAIN, a phrase made popular by the former British prime minister Winston...Eastern Europe: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." As the Cold War emerged...
iron curtain
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military iron curtain (usually the Iron Curtain ) the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
”Iron Curtain” speech
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ”Iron Curtain” speech an address given by former British Prime Minister...of Soviet communism, which he believed had spread an “iron curtain” across Eastern Europe.
curtain
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable curtain curtain call the appearance of one...the audience's applause. curtain lecture an instance of a...reprimand given behind bed curtains). curtain-raiser an entertainment...See also bamboo curtain , iron curtain .
iron
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...from having a circlet of iron inserted, reputed to have...the nails of the Cross. Iron Curtain a notional barrier separating...in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the...intermittently from 1920. Iron Duke a nickname of the...
Truman Doctrine
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Winston Churchill had termed the "iron curtain." Although it was specifically targeted...1972. Harbutt, Fraser J. The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America, and...Cold War ; Greece, Relations with ; Iron Curtain ; Marshall Plan .
Yalta Conference
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...accuse Moscow of having divided the continent with an Iron Curtain. In the United States, Republican critics accused...Relations with ; Great Britain, Relations with ; Iron Curtain ; McCarthyism ; Russia, Relations with ; World War...
Wellman, William
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Bill 1945 This Man's Navy ; The Story of G.I. Joe 1946 Gallant Journey (+ pr, co-sc) 1947 Magic Town 1948 Iron Curtain 1949 Yellow Sky ; Battleground 1950 The Next Voice You Hear 1951 Across the Wide Missouri 1952 Westward the Women...
Kusturica, Emir
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Ostria, article in Cahiers du Cinéma (Paris), May 1991. Williams, Michael, and Deborah Young, "Iron Curtain Alums Test West's Mettle," Variety (New York), 29 June 1992. Maslin, Janet, "Two Films on Strife in Balkans...
Horn, Gyula
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...of 1989–90. His decision to open Hungary's border with Austria on 27 June 1989 led to the fall of the Iron Curtain and, ultimately, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall . In 1990, he negotiated the withdrawal of Soviet troops by 1991...

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Israeli troops fight `iron curtains war'
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/20/1988; 700+ words ; ...of the Israeli army's elite brown beret unit, use an iron bar to smash the lock affixed to another shop, shattering...troops return and what has become known as "the war of the iron curtains" resumes in earnest. A Palestinian boy is chosen at...
ROAD RECORD; Iron curtain finally falls on the Lada.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland); 7/18/1997; ; 700+ words ; So finally it's iron curtains for the Lada in Britain. Thanks to EC law, new models of the Soviet supercharged roller-skate will no longer appear on our...
Iron Curtain From Stage to Cold War.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Iron Curtain From Stage to Cold War Patrick Wright...his probe to show how the concept of an iron curtain--indeed the very words themselves...the seemingly impervious barrier of the iron curtain--both in the wake of Churchill's...
International conspiracy in and around The Iron Curtain.
Magazine article from: Velvet Light Trap; 3/22/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...history of a specific film, The Iron Curtain (William Wellman, 1948), which...sequences shot in Ottawa. (7) The Iron Curtain warns about the dangers of treason...native Russia as a heroic act. The Iron Curtain was constructed as an important...
From Iron Curtain to Green Belt
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 5/17/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...whinchat were the keys that turned the Iron Curtain's landscape of barbed wire, mined...found almost exclusively around the Iron Curtain. "It was extraordinary," he...the end of the 1970s, Frobel's Iron Curtain whinchat study was the winning...
IRON CURTAIN GONE, NOT FORGOTTEN.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/24/1999; 700+ words ; ...Associated Press ALONG THE FORMER IRON CURTAIN -- In a row of cages where border...edge of what used to be called the Iron Curtain, the offices of the defunct...thread that would unravel the whole Iron Curtain. Soon after the Berlin Wall came...
Q: Mr President, is the world safer after the Iraq war? A: You jokin' buddy? Why d'ya think ah'm askin' the Queen to gimme iron curtains in my bedroom?; BRIAN READE imagines what George Dubya might say if he came clean about the Iraq war EXCLUSIVE: THE INTERVIEW THEY ALL WANTED.. BUT ONLY THE.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 11/18/2003; 700+ words ; ...and Osama bin Laden still at large. A safer place? You kidding. Why do you think ah'm asking the Queen to gimme iron curtains in my bedroom? BRIAN READE: Iraq is turning into your new Vietnam, just as we predicted, isn't it? GWB: You...
Iron Curtain replaced by a border in the mind Wall is gone, but clash of attitudes splits Germany
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 10/24/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Soviet bloc was disintegrating and the Iron Curtain was about to recede into history...edge of what used to be called the Iron Curtain, the offices of the defunct...had made in the dying days of the Iron Curtain, I can only marvel at how...
Iron Curtain is vanished, unmorned but not forgotten: ; Sone tensions remain between 'Ossis,' 'Wessis'
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 10/24/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Soviet bloc was disintegrating and the Iron Curtain was about to recede into history...retraced their journey. ALONG THE FORMER IRON CURTAIN - In a row of cages where...journey I made in the dying days of the Iron Curtain, I can only marvel at how...
Iron Curtain to be a tourist magnet
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 9/29/2005; 700+ words ; BERLIN: The Iron Curtain, which divided the communist bloc from...funded by the European Union (EU), the Iron Curtain is to be turned into a 7,000...walkers and cyclists. The EU hopes that the Iron Curtain Trail, likely to be the longest...