Modern Era · North America · Politics
1946
Iron Curtain speech
March 5, 1946
At Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill, no longer prime minister, told his audience that from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain had descended across the continent. The phrase caught. A new geopolitical reality had its name. The wartime alliance with Stalin was publicly finished.
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