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- Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.
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During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union 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 Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
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.
- c. 1946-c. 1990
- Europe
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.
Sep 14, 2024 · The Iron Curtain speech was delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. Churchill used the speech to emphasize the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “ iron curtain ...
According to worldatlas.com, the symbolic fall of the Iron Curtain came on November 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Berlin from West Berlin was pulled down. The fall of the Berlin Wall, however, was preceded by many other developments that led to the fall of the Curtain.
