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cold war
cold war term used to describe the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the Western powers and the Communist bloc from the end of World War II until 1989. Of worldwide proportions, the conflict was tacit in the ideological differences between communism and capitalist democracy . The... Read more |
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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Belorussia
Belorussia (belo or byelo, white). Having failed to defend the independence which it had briefly achieved at the end of the First World War, Belorussia found itself divided between a western region that formed part of the Republic of Poland and an eastern region that, as the Belorussian SSR, was... Read more |
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Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), international organization established as the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) in 1973, during the cold war , to promote East-West cooperation. Headquarters are in Prague, Czech Republic. The CSCE's 1975 meeting in... Read more |
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Isabela
Isabela , province (1990 pop. 1,080,341), NE Luzon, the Philippines. The capital is Ilagan. The fertile Cagayan River valley, which is in the central and eastern part of the province, is a leading tobacco- and cacao-producing region. The rugged Sierra Madre on the east is mineral rich; iron, nickel,... Read more |
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Trans-Canada Highway
Trans-Canada Highway c.4,800 mi (7,700 km) long, S Canada; dedicated 1962; completed 1970. The world's longest national highway, it traverses North America from St. John's, N.L., to Victoria, British Columbia. Ferry routes form vital links at the eastern and western ends of the highway. The Alaska... Read more |
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Kerch
Kerch , city (1989 pop. 174,000), in Ukraine, in the Crimea. It lies on the Kerch Strait of the Black Sea and at the eastern end of the Kerch Peninsula, a strip of land between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. A seaport and major industrial center, it has iron and steel mills, shipyards,... Read more |
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Caroline Islands
Caroline Islands archipelago, c.830 sq mi (2,150 sq km), W Pacific, just north of the equator. The largest islands are Palau (Belau), Yap , Chuuk (Truk), Pohnpei (Ponape), and Kosrae. The islands are fertile and rich in minerals. There are deposits of phosphate, guano, bauxite, and iron;... Read more |
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Schism of East and West
Schism of East and West division between the Orthodox Eastern Church and the Roman Catholic Church . See Christianity ; Ferrara-Florence, Council of ; Leo IX, Saint ; Lyons, Second Council of ; papacy ; Photius .... Read more |
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Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain Term describing the barrier between communist East Europe and the capitalist West during the Cold War. The term passed into common use after its appearance in a speech by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri, in March 1946. |
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iron lung
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 in newspaper... |
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Curtain
...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 ... |
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Iron
Iron, see SAFETY CURTAIN. |
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King, Martin Luther, Jr
...situated 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 is the... |
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Containment
...repeating the theme publicly in his 5 March 1945, “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri. George Kennan, a...call for the “liberation” of countries behind the Iron Curtain) frequently condemned it as too passive.Receiving... |
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Flexible Response
...forces. These increases were designed to assure that the NATO conventional response to a Soviet incursion across the Iron Curtain would be more than token resistance designed to trigger the employment of nuclear weapons, despite European nervousness... |
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Jacobi, Lou
...Lionel Z. Governor in Fade Out—Fade In (1964); the American‐Jewish caterer Walter Hollander caught behind the Iron Curtain in Don't Drink the Water (1966); and two different Jews in Unlikely Heroes (1971). |
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Greece, relations with
...sphere of influence. It soon became clear that Britain had no longer the military or economic strength to offer protection, but the intervention of the USA by the Truman doctrine of 1947 kept Greece outside the iron curtain. J. A. Cannon |
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Churchill, Winston S.
...the Potsdam Conference by Clement Attlee, Churchill nonetheless urged resistance to Soviet communism with the 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri. As prime minister once more in 1951–55, he visited America three times and took... |
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Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain The colloquial name for the former frontier between East European countries...used by Churchill: ‘I view with profound misgivings the descent of an iron curtain between us and everything to the eastward.’ It was generally agreed... |
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iron curtain
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. |
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”Iron Curtain” speech
”Iron Curtain” speech an address given by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...against the spread of Soviet communism, which he believed had spread an “iron curtain” across Eastern Europe. |
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curtain
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 ... |
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iron
...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 ... |
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Horn, Gyula
...MSZP) 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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Truman, Harry S.
...1945 he decided to confront the Soviet Union by ending lend-lease. He accepted the division of Europe through the Iron Curtain from 1947, after the Soviet refusal of Marshall Aid, and his announcement of the Truman Doctrine.In 1948 he won... |
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Sociology of religion
...early Christianity, spiritual healing practices, Islamic fundamentalism, and the prospects of religion in former iron-curtain countries. For more than twenty years, considerable empirical and theoretical attention has been devoted to the beliefs... |
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bamboo curtain
bamboo curtain a political and economic barrier between China and non-Communist countries, on the model of iron of Chancery. |
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Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War.(Book review)
Iron Curtain: From Stage to...it in 1946. Iron Curtains had been long used...Although the postwar Iron Curtain "descended" in...connotation--a fire-curtain against the USSR...political "iron ... |
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Israeli troops fight `iron curtains war'
...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... |
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ROAD RECORD; Iron curtain finally falls on the Lada.(Features)
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... |
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Iron Curtain From Stage to Cold War.(Book review)
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 ... |
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International conspiracy in and around The Iron Curtain.
...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 ... |
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From Iron Curtain to Green Belt
...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 ... |
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IRON CURTAIN GONE, NOT FORGOTTEN.(MAIN)
...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 ... |
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Iron Curtain to be a tourist magnet
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 ... |
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Iron Curtain is vanished, unmorned but not forgotten: ; Sone tensions remain...
...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 ... |
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Q: Mr President, is the world safer after the Iraq war? A: You jokin' buddy?...
...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... |
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