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The Iron Curtain as described by Churchill at Westminster College. Note that Vienna (center, red regions, third down) lies east of the Curtain, as part of the Austrian Soviet-occupied zone of Austria. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Iron Curtain, political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the U.S.S.R after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.
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Mar 31, 2018 · The Iron Curtain was a colloquial name for the boundary between Soviet-controlled Europe and the rest of the continent. The Soviet Red Army, after releasing the nations of Eastern Europe from Nazi oppression in 1945, worked to install governments that would adopt socialism and align with Moscow.
On 5 March 1946, Winston Churchill addressed an audience at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri. The speech was officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace” but is now better known as the “Iron Curtain” speech. In the speech, Churchill expressed his concern about increasing Soviet influence in Europe.
The Iron Curtain is a term that received prominence after Winston Churchill’s speech in which he said that an “iron curtain has descended” across Europe. He was referring to the boundary line that divided Europe in two different political areas: Western Europe had political freedom, while Eastern Europe was under communist Soviet rule.
Iron Curtain, political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the U.S.S.R after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. The term came to prominence after its use in a speech by Winston Churchill.
But most historians would agree that a key event in the emerging Cold War was Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron curtain’ speech delivered on 5 March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
