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Article: The Iron Curtain falls.(fall of the Soviet Union leads to expansion of NATO)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
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For 45 years, troops from the Western allies and the Soviet bloc glared at each other across Central Europe. Both sides were armed to the teeth and both worried about being attacked by the other. This was the Cold War, and the line that divided the two sides was called the Iron Curtain. The Western powers operated under the umbrella of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); fighting forces were stationed in West Germany, Spain, Britain, Turkey, and other countries. The Soviets and its allies were members of the Warsaw Pact; soldiers were based in East Germany, Czechoslovakia Poland, and most of the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. When the Soviet Union started ...
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