NPR speaks with historian Jill Lepore about the world America made after World ... watt Radio Free Europe transmitter in Western Germany. This station daily pierces the Iron Curtain with the ...

The Iron Curtain was an ideological and physical separation of communist Eastern Europe from the West following ... term "iron curtain" was popularised after it was used by former British prime ...

During the Cold War, military aircraft of the opposing blocks would often meet over the Iron Curtain, the border between Western and Communist countries of Europe. Such encounters usually ended ...

A web of secret alliances dragged country after ... Eastern Europe. Instead, it installed communist governments and established a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact. The Iron Curtain fell across ...

Coming so swiftly after ... but Europe’s history may make its soil less fertile for such ideas. In countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy – and on the other side of the Iron Curtain that ...

The PAST week has been the bleakest in Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Ukraine is being ... answer is to curl up in a defensive crouch. After the MAGA onslaught, a group of European ...

The fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 brought many changes, but one of the more unexpected was that it enabled the wolves of Eastern Europe to begin ... s path a decade after him.