"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." The phrase "iron curtain," coined in 1947, refers to the
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- A.Marshall Plan, which provided millions of dollars in U.S. aid to any nation in Europe that requested it
- B.Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II
- C.borderline between nations under Soviet communist influence and the rest of the world
- D.borderline between Northern and Southern Europe
- E.concrete wall that divided East Berlin from West Berlin
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