Read each question and choose the best answer. A Texas historian who was organizing events chronologically would place which two items in the same era?

A. World War I; the birth of the Texas Republic
B. The first Spanish colonies in Texas; the civil rights movement
C. Texas soldiers in the 1940s; World War II
D. Mexico's independence; the Civil War and 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.