Why did President Eisenhower send federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas? * to escort Civil Rights protesters across a bridge
to remove a racist police chief who used fire hoses on protestors
to support a bus boycott after an elderly black woman refused to give up her seat
the Governor refused to protect 9 black students entering a formally all white high
school

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.