What is the name of the ‘Checkpoint’ in Berlin which served as a symbol of the Iron Curtain?
Iron Curtain neutral. Separate international economic and military alliances were developed on each side of the Iron Curtain: Physically, the Iron Curtain took the form of border defences between the countries of Europe in the middle of the continent. The most notable border was marked by the Berlin Wall and its Checkpoint Charlie, which served as a symbol of the Curtain as a whole. The events that demolished the Iron Curtain started in discontent in Poland, and continued in Hungary, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. Romania became the only communist state in Europe to overthrow its government
EV13 The Iron Curtain Trail EV13 The Iron Curtain Trail The Iron Curtain Trail (ICT), also known as EuroVelo 13 (EV13), is a partially complete long-distance cycling route which will run along the entire length of the former Iron Curtain. During the period of the Cold War (c. 1947-1991), the Iron Curtain delineated the border between the Communist East and the capitalist West, with the East being the Warsaw Pact countries of the Soviet bloc and the West being the countries of NATO. The ICT can also, of course, be walked as a long-distance trail. , many parts of the ICT are already complete, particularly