Cold war (jan 24, 1946 – dec 1, 1989)
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In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill gave an address on foreign affairs at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In it he uttered this ominous sentence: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent [of Europe].” These words described the beginning of the Cold War.
http://school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Cold-War/273726
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