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During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later 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 1991.
Image:Cold war europe military alliances map.png by San Jose under licence GFDL; Image:Iron Curtain Final.svg by Vernes Seferovic alias Kseferovic under licence GFDL & CC-BY-SA; Author: Sémhur: Other versions: File:Iron Curtain map alternative.svg (Same, but with Yugoslavia on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain.) Attribution (required by the ...
A preserved fence with watchtower near Čížov (2009). The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and several of the capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž (English: the Border Guard) and a system of engineer equipment ...
During the Cold War, the Fulda Gap offered one of the two obvious routes for a hypothetical Soviet tank attack on West Germany from Eastern Europe, especially from East Germany. The other route crossed the North German Plain. A third, less likely, route involved travelling up through the Danube River valley through neutral Austria.
Political situation in Europe during the Cold War In June 1947, after the Soviets had refused to negotiate a potential lightening of restrictions on German development, the United States announced the Marshall Plan , a comprehensive program of American assistance to all European countries wanting to participate, including the Soviet Union and ...
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The official emblem of the Pan-European Picnic in Hungarian The border crossing where the Pan-European picnic took place. The Pan-European Picnic (German: Paneuropäisches Picknick; Hungarian: Páneurópai piknik; Slovak: Paneurópsky piknik; Czech: Panevropský piknik) was a peace demonstration held on the Austrian-Hungarian border near Sopron, Hungary on 19 August 1989.
But Europe should not stand in the way of a U.S.-led resolution to the war in Ukraine. The post-Berlin Wall unipolar moment is long over. Nationalism and realism are not merely the flavors of the ...