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It not only made the term “iron curtain” a household phrase, but it coined the term “special relationship,” describing enduring alliance between the United States and Great Britain. It is a speech that offered a blueprint for the west to ultimately wage—and win—the Cold War.
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Sep 14, 2024 · Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed 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” across Europe.
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Churchill’s speech has entered the canon of great speeches for one reason above all others: his use of the phrase ‘iron curtain’ to describe the divide between the capitalist West (dominated by Britain and America) and the Communist East (controlled and influenced by the Soviet Union).
Mar 30, 2017 · The speech drew the world’s attention to the threat of a powerful Soviet Union and the potential ‘cold war’ between the East and the West. Although the ‘iron curtain’ phrase had been used before, Churchill gave it common currency and in so doing, increased awareness and influenced world policy.
Nov 4, 2001 · Iron Curtain Speech. by Winston Churchill, 1946. Known for its famous sentence “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”
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.
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In March 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He described “an iron curtain [that] has descended across the continent,” dividing Europe into two spheres: one under Soviet influence and the other under Western influence.
