Topics to focus on while studying: Interaction akd exchanges between Native American and Europeans at the start of the colonization of the New World. The rise of racial slaveryn i early colonial American importance of the Zenger Article and the era on the eve of the
Revolutionary War. French Revolution 300 America. Challenges to the institution of slavery in the years before the vil war.
Reconstruction

Where did the term “iron curtain” originate? the warsaw pact used the term iron curtain as a code word for communism. in a 1946 speech, british prime minister winston churchill said an iron curtain had fallen across the continent of europe. while visiting western europe in 1946, u.s. president harry truman commented that the mountains there looked like iron curtains. russian general secretary joseph stalin instructed citizens of eastern europe to hang iron curtains over their windows to protect themselves from stray bullets.