mar 5, 1946 - Iron Curtain Speech

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The Iron Curtain speech, delivered by Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, is a key moment in the history of the Cold War. In it, Churchill described a line across Europe, from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, as being an "iron curtain" separating the Soviet sphere of influence from the West. This speech signaled the beginning of the Cold War and highlighted the growing ideological and geopolitical divide between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies.

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