5 März 1946 Jahr - Iron Curtain Speech- In this famous speech
Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet
Union's policies in Europe.
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6 Important Facts:
1.) Churchill, who had been defeated for reelection as prime minister, was invited to Westminster college in Fulton, Missouri to give his speech.
2.) The term "iron curtain" was coined at the speech as a way of describing the guarded border between the countries of the Soviet block and western Europe.
3.) Churchill began by appraising the US and it later became clear the speech was intended to argue for an even closer "special relationship" between the US and Great Britain the great powers of the "English speaking world" in organizing and policing the postwar world.
4.) Warned against the expansionist policies of the Soviet.
5.) Churchill's "iron curtain" phrase immediately entered the official vocabulary of the Cold War.
6.) While the US saw the UK as valuable allies in the Cold War, they were also aware that Britain's power was on the decline and had no intention of being used as pawns to help support the crumbling British empire. Stalin denounced the speech.
