The iron curtain was a boundary that divided Europe from the end of the second world war in 1945 to the late 1980s/early 1990s, during the Cold War ... line between the Communist bloc and ...

The event would cause a chain reaction of anti-Communist sentiments throughout the West. Canada had little chance to choose sides in the Cold War. The country was seated beside the United States ...

The end of the Cold War The Communist government in Russia disintegrated due to economic pressures, the war in Afghanistan and revolt in Eastern Europe. Both Gorbachev and Reagan played major ...