It was coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 during a speech in Fulton, Missouri. The contest was won by Gregory Kronz, then a ninth grader at a suburban high school. 2. The formation of a Soviet bloc in Europe occurred after World War II. The Iron Curtain is a promotional primary weapon for the Heavy. d) separated Japan from the rest of Asia. It was supposedly crafted by the Heavy himself. On March 5, 1946, Sir Winston Churchill visited Westminster College as the Green Lecturer and delivered "Sinews of Peace," a message heard round the world that went down in history as the "Iron Curtain Speech." This "barrier" was not a physical wall or barrier but, just a means of separation and isolation. The film was later re-released as Behind the Iron Curtain. Principal photography was done on location in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada by Charles G. Clarke. The Iron Curtain (A Section 2 Novel Book 1) - Kindle edition by Lewis, Jock. The "Iron Curtain": a) separated the free West from the communist East. With Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger. Initially set up as a buffer zone to the Soviet Union, there was a great deal of tension between these countries, and … Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. The Iron Curtain is a 1948 American thriller film starring Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney, directed by William A. Wellman. Combining Winston Churchill's moniker of the Iron Curtain with the dominant steel industry of Pittsburgh, the nickname "Steel Curtain" established recognition due to being very apt and thirty years later is still in use. 'The Iron Curtain' becomes, in a short time - the film doesn't arrive in an hour and a half - in a vibrant story of survival, in which the personal prevails above the general. The Iron Curtain was a Cold War name for the borders between Western and Soviet Europe. Directed by William A. Wellman. It is a minigun made out of wood and metal, with identifiable features such as the Communist Hammer and Sickle emblem visible on the ammo casing and a smoking vent on the side. The Eastern Bloc, coined as the Iron Curtain by the West, were the countries that formed a boundary between eastern and western Europe after World War II. The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet … "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain… This weapon functions identically to the Minigun. c) separated the United States from the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain is the name for the "barrier" that separated the communist and non-communist territories. The film was based on the memoirs of Igor Gouzenko. 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