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Oct 14, 2013 · A few weeks ago, after making a Powerpoint presentation on local history to a Burnley-based charitable organisation, a gentleman came up to me and asked me a question to which I could not give him a satisfactory answer. The question was: “Why is St James’s Street so called?”
From Hitchhiking across Europe to meeting her husband in Munich, Bridget Gubbins' new book tells her story of her 1960's trip behind the Iron Curtain.
Feb 11, 2009 · Churchill's ‘iron curtain’ speech at Fulton, Missouri, on 5 March 1946, was a major effort to promote both a strengthened Anglo-American combination and a firmer western front against the Soviet Union. In the months between his electoral defeat and his talk at Fulton he had viewed Soviet consolidation in Europe with continuing concern ...
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).
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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Why was the 'Iron Curtain' speech important? It helped bolster American and western European opposition to communism and the Soviet Union . It worsened relations between the USSR and the West.
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Oct 14, 2008 · When he spoke of the “Iron Curtain” that had descended from “Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,” Winston Churchill was acknowledging and announcing a truth which so many in the West were so unwilling to admit – the onset of the Cold War.
