What was a key element in making computers widely accessible to the public?
A) importing technology from Asia
B) requiring college students to bring computers in their freshman year
C) reducing size and cost by using transistors and then silicon chips to store data
D) government subsidies for research and distribution

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.