Cold+WarJA

[[image:Iron_Curtain.gif width="360" height="234" align="right"]][[image:250px-Iron_Curtain_Final.svg.png width="275" height="287" align="right"]]The Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain is the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. In the east of the Iron Curtain  were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. In the west of the Iron Curtain they  had democratic governments.