5 mars 1946 - Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech - Keira

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Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech was a historic address delivered on March 5th, 1946 in Fulton, Missouri. This speech was utilized to bring light to the political situation in Europe following the conclusion of World War II. Churchill argued that the Soviet Union was seeking to expand its power and influence in Europe through the establishment of an "iron curtain." He stated, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." This quotation is undoubtedly the most famous from Churchill's speech, utilizing the iron curtain metaphor for the impenetrable ideological divide forming between communist states and Western democracies in Eastern Europe. The term quickly became more common, serving as shorthand for the growing unease between Western democracies and the Soviet Union. The fame of the Iron Curtain Speech was due to the impact Churchill's words had on the political discourse of the time and its contribution to the Western response to Soviet aggression in the Cold War.

"Iron Curtain Speech." Westminster College. Accessed March 16, 2023. https://www.wcmo.edu/about/history/iron-curtain-speech.html.

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