Iron Curtain: The term Iron Curtain refers to the boundary that divided Europe in the west and the Soviet Union and its Communist states in the east. The division began at the end of World War Two (WW2) in 1945 and lasted until the fall of the USSR in 1989, a division that lasted nearly 45 years. Geographically, the borderline ran from arctic Russia in the north, through eastern Europe down to Bulgaria ending at Black Sea.
NATO/Warsaw Pact:
In 1949 NATO was created to protect Western Europe from a possible invasion from the east. In 1955 the Russians formed the Warsaw Pact to counter NATO. Founders of NATO included Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom and the United States. The Warsaw pact included Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and East Germany.
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