mar 5, 1946 - Winston Churchill gave his famous “iron curtain” speech.

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Winston Churchill, a former prime minister in the UK, believed that Stalin had ideas of world domination for the USSR and communists. On March 5th 1946, he gave the Iron Curtain speech, to Missouri, President Truman's home state. This speech resembled the split in Western Europe that communism had caused. Churchill was spreading the idea if democratic states stood firm, would keep communism limited.

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